Review the navigation bar to your left for a multitude of pertinent and relevant books from authors and writers representing all walks of life. The majority of these books speak directly to the Black experience (past and present) in America and beyond.

Note: This site is an ongoing work in progress. Your suggestions and comments are welcome at BlackMenRead@gmail.com

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• Knowledge is power, and to be able to read or hear it, contradicts every effort western civilization utilizes to contain, distort or omit it. Two prevailing themes are consistently promoted in the mass media to minimize any empowering efforts on the part of Black people: various television programs and articles to embed in the mind that slavery is the only legacy of Black people; and a barrage of programs, articles and false graphics to reverse the fact that Black people created the world's most significant ancient civilization, Kemet (Egypt), the precursor to world civilizations, science, medicine, mathematics and many other human creations. - Kwaku Person-Lynn, Ph.D.

• "We are the only racial group within the United States ever forbidden by law to read & write."

Alice Childress, Playwrite, Novelist, & Actress 

• "When you control a man's thinking, you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder, he will find his proper place and stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit."……think for yourself. 

Carter G. Woodson

Historian, Author, Journalist, "Father of Black History"

• If we, as a people, realized the greatness from which we came (Africa) we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves. Our lives did not begin in slave shanties on plantations in the United States and the Caribbean, we, as deposed Africans have a responsibility to our youth to reinforce this fact."

Marcus Garvey

Pan-Africanist, Publisher, Journalist, Black Nationalist

• "They made us think that Africa was a land of jungles, a land of animals, a land of cannibals and savages...they were so successful in projecting this negative image of Africa, those of us here in the West of African ancestry, the Afro-American, we looked upon Africa as a hateful place...Why? Because those who oppress know that you can't make a person hate the root without making them hate the tree. You can't hate your own and not end up hating yourself. And since we all originated in Africa, you can't make us hate Africa without making us hate ourselves...And what was the result? They ended up with 22 million Black people here in America who hated everything about us that was African."

Malcolm X

Black Nationalist, Human Rights Activist

• "The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years from now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event."

Dr. John Henrik Clarke

Historian, Pan-Africanist, Author, Professor

• " I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky: my name, not yours, my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

Muhammad Ali

World HeavyWeight Boxing Champion

•  "Now looking back on what helped me most, I see the answer in one word -- reading. Without it I would have remained in darkness -- without a solid approach to photography, motion pictures, poetry, painting, or music.

Gordon Parks

Photographer, Writer, Poet, Film director

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