Top 5 Books on Black History Everyone Should Read!

In this Review, I Reveal the Top 5 books on Black History That I Think Everyone Should Read!

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[geekmeee]

Something else I recommend is "The Velvet Rope Economy" (circa 2020) by Nelson Schwartz.
When I got done with this book, I understood why, everyone is taught to discriminate or be racist.

[chriswalls]

My new idea was book showing black history to present, Kobe, Jordan, wilt, Tuskegee airmen, john lewis, Jackie Robinson etc

[ipznona]

Dr Jason Freeman thank you 🙏🏾.

I highly recommend these great black books . Written by black authors 👇🏾

1. Black economics - Dr jawanza kunjufu

2. Black love is a revolutionary act - Umoja

3. Malcom X autobiography - Alex Haley

4. Breaking the curse of willie lynch - alivin morrow

5. The new Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander

One love ❤

[fizzy_buzz]

I have like a million books I want to read, but don't have the time or money to get my hands on. Thank you for the list, I will make sure to check them out sometime. Keep up the great videos :)

[patricejones]

Slavery By Another Name and Medical Apartheid are both great books. Assata by Assata Shakur was very informative regarding the justice system in the 70s, and it was hilarious as well.
Great video.

[coffeecup]

so good! I can't believe you dont have a bigger audience

[MCPObeak]

As a retired Navy man, I enjoy military history. One of my favorite books I read this year was 'All Blood Runs Red.' It is the fascinating story of Eugene Bullard, the first black American pilot who fought for France in the first World War. He went on to become a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer. An excellent and informative read.

[babettedejong]

Enticing recommendations! Some I hadn't heard of before and I'm always happy to expand my TBR. 😁 My suggestion for a recommendation would be The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates Jr.. I loved the scope and spectrum of this anthology, both in terms of writers, literary forms and subjects. It was a very rich experience for me.

[donnamarielandry]

Hello~ I was in high school in the 70’s. We were assigned to read “Black Like Me” and to write a paper. About a white man blacking his face & skin to learn just how black men were treated. The other book is “Hellhound on His Trail, ” by Hampton Sides whose father was an attorney for Dr. King.

[amoijoy]

A wonderful recommendation: The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, is a must read.

[jamesdunn]

When I think of black history I think of books like, "Before The Mayflower", by Lerone Bennet, "Black History", Albert Brimmer, ,
"The Miseducation of the Negro", by Carter G Woodson and a more modern book, "Four Hundred Souls", which is a compilation of authors
that was edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha BN. Blain.

[YesNo-hmhj]

Been meaning to read The New Jim Crow for a while now. Definitely will now

[rebfh]

Thanks for this video! I'd also recommend five books I've read recently: Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson; The Sum of Us, by Heather McGhee; Half American, by Matthew Delmont; Teaching White Supremacy, by Donald Yacovone; and By Hands Now Known, by Margaret Burnham.

[Rebecca-lehn]

The books by J.A. Rogers are interesting reads. The African history before the slave trade and the USA.

[veeisher]

Great list! Here’s one that is an eye opening reminder of who still has the real benefits card! 😉 “Policing the Black Man” by Angela J Davis
&
Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America's First Civil Rights Martyr
by Ben Green
I hope you use one and if not maybe you can do a review on them yourself either way… I hope this helps 🙏🏽

[jacquedelsol]

Thank you, I have 3 out of the 5 books recommended. I also suggest, How Europe underdeveloped Aftica by walter rodney; the destruction of black civilization by chancellor williams; Pre-colonial black africa by Cheikh Anta Diop; Medical Aparteid by Harriet A Washington; Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Rogers; the African origin of Civilisation: Myth or Reality; the interesting narrative of the life of Olauda Equiana:or Gustavus Vassa the african written by himself;

[HasibNox]

Honorable Mention: Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington
5. Eyes On The Prize Juan Williams
4. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
3. Levittown David Kushner
2.The New Jim Crow Laws Michelle Alexander
1. Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglas An American Slave Benjamin Quarles

[feliciamichelle]

Book recommendations for your class is Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson or Caste by Isabel Wilkerson.

[KingJusetic]

Great video. 👍Making sure to check some these out.

[tklucas]

Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Dubois should be added.