The essays are designed to inspire thought within the Black Mind. These writings are primarily targeted toward the Black Youth of this day, of which I am a part of. I am not a Master of these teachings, but these teachings I wish to Master.They say that my generation is not intelligent enough to read a book. I say that They are wrong. It is just that They are not writing about anything of interest that is relevant to our lives!And when They do write something, they have to write in the perfect King's English to impress their Harvard Professors! Here we are with a book in one hand, and a dictionary in the other, trying to understand what in the hell the author is talking about!If you have got something to say, just say it! We are not impressed by your 27-letter words, or your Shakespearian style of writing. The Black Youth of today don't give a damn about Shakespeare!!! This ain't no damn poetry contest! Wear are dealing with the life, blood, and salvation of our entire Black Nation!If you want to reach the People, you have to embrace us where we are, and then take us where we need to go. So, these writings are from my generation and for my generation with respect and love.If no one will teach, love and guide us, then we will teach love and guide ourselves.Peace.

    It recounts the stories of Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Assata Shakur, all of whom were arrested and jailed during the COINTELPRO probe of the Black Panther Party.Dhoruba Bin Wahad, who organized chapters of the Black Panther Party in New York and along the Estern Seaboard and worked with tenants in Harlem and on drug rehabilitation in the Bronx, was accused of murdering two officers while still in his teens and imprisoned for 19 years. He always maintained his innocence and won his freedom by forcing the FBI to release thousands of classified documents proving that he had been framed. The justice department eventually rescinded Bin Wahad's conviction and he was released in 1990, seven months after the documentary premiered.Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist who headed the Black Panther free breakfast program for inner-city school children in Philadelphia, was also accused of the murder of an officer and sent on death-row, where he still is today.Assata Shakur was a college educated social worker in her twenties when she was accused of shooting a cop, then arrested and tortured and denied medical treatment. Her interview was conducted in Cuba where she has been exiled since her escape from a New Jersey women's prison in 1975.Bin Wahad, Shakur and Abu-Jamal offer a little-known history and an incisive analysis of the Black Panthers' original goals, which the U.S. Government has tried to distort and suppress. As one confidential, 1969, memo to J. Edgar Hoover put it, "The Negro youth and moderates must be made to understand that if they succumb to revolutionary teaching, they will be dead revolutionaries."

    "A work of art . . . Billy never lets up, not for one minute. . . . magnificent".--New York Daily News.

    Newton. Originally published circa 1968 as a fund raising tool for the "Free Huey" defense fund, this book delves deeply into Newton's thinking on a variety of political subjects. With an introduction by Eldridge Cleaver, it represents one of the most poignant tomes of the Black revolutionary period.

    Flowers seamlessly blends the rich rythms of the blues and a Deep South patois in a lyrical, literate style." - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWIt's Beale Street in Memphis in the age when jazz was spelled "jass" and ragtime was just a glint in Scott Joplin's eye. Lucas Bodeen is the bluesman, and Melvira Dupree is the conjure woman he loves. But pitted against them are all the forces of nature, the clashing of their own stubborn wills, and a society mired in the laws of Jim Crow and the mob. Combining the ancient African storytelling art of the griot with the American offshoots of blues and hoodoo, Arthur Flowers sings us a story that makes us smile - a story of life, and how love and happiness really happen.

    Now this expanded edition of that best-selling book, with a new title, offers the reader thirty-one stories included in the original—from Charles W. Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar in the late nineteenth century to the rich and productive work of the Harlem Renaissance: writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright; the World War II accomplishments of Chester Himes, Frank Yerby, and many others; and the later fiction of James Baldwin, Paule Marshall, and LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka). Seven additional contributions round out a century of great stories with the work of Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Eugenia Collier, Jennifer Jordan, James Allan McPherson, Rosemarie Robotham, and Alice Walker. Dr. Clarke has included a new introduction to this 1993 edition, and a short biography of each contributor.Lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar --On being crazy / W.E.B. Du Bois --Goophered grapevine / Charles Waddell Chesnutt --City of refuge / Rudolph Fisher --Overcoat / John P. Davis --Truant / Claude McKay --Summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps --Gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston --Bright and morning star / Richard Wright --Boy who painted Christ black / John Henrik Clarke --On friday morning / Langston Hughes --So peaceful in the country / Carl Ruthven Offord --And/or / Sterling Brown --Fighter / John Caswell Smith --Homecoming / Frank Yerby --How John Boscoe outsung the devil / Arthur P. Davis --Solo on the drums / Ann Petry --Mama's missionary money / Chester Himes --See how they run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman --Exodus / James Baldwin --God bless America / John O. Killens --Train whistle guitar / Albert Murray. Senegalese / Hoyt W. Fuller --A matter of time / Frank London Brown --Cry for me / William Melvin Kelley --Reena / Paule Marshall --Convert / Lerone Bennett, Jr. --Winds of change / Loyle Hairston --Screamers / LeRoi Jones --Sarah / Martin J. Hamer --Sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines --On trains / James Allen McPherson --Marigolds / Eugenia W. Collier --Steady going up / Maya Angelou --Everyday use / Alice Walker --Organizer's wife / Toni Cade Bambara --Jesse / Rosemarie Robotham --The wife / Jennifer Jordan