Thanks for this post, Shanté! I have a dog-eared copy of this book which I read a long time ago after listening to a video by Dr. Clarke about it (his videos on YouTube are amazing!). I haven't read it lately but I think I will reread!

Some other good ones are, "They Came Before Columbus" by Ivan Van Sertima and Aimé Césaire's, "Discourse on Colonialism" to name a few.

Black historians like Chancellor Williams, Cheikh Anta Diop, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. John G. Jackson, Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan (Dr. Ben), and a host of others have been telling our truths for a very long time, which rattled white folk to the point of trying to erase them.

They tried, but they couldn't do it -- or YOU wouldn't have been able to discover this knowledge! But what they did do, was continuously bombard us with shiny distraction after shiny distraction, both big and small to make us not want to listen to those truths being told us by those old, so-called "dinosaurs" of, to-their-mind, nonexistent-before-slavery, Black history. And as we survey the state of Black America today, I can unequivocally say -- they were extremely successful.

Oh! Your post got me thinking today and I revisited some of my saved YouTube videos of some of the men above (tired of all these damned, mindless Xmas shows on TV) and in one, titled, "At the Feet of The Grand Masters," Dr. Clarke mentioned Lorraine Hansberry's dad about whom you wrote a little while ago!! I'd listened to this a long time ago, but never made the connection because I didn't know who he was!!

A-a-a-nyway, great post, Daughter! I hope it's shared widely and often!