Black Truth-Telling Collection
History & Identity
Dr. Claud Anderson delivers a blunt, well-researched examination of how America's economic power was built on the back of enslaved Black labor. He documents how legal systems, policy, and racism maintained white wealth while keeping Black people at the economic bottom. The book lays out a case for reparations and presents a plan for economic empowerment through group economics.
Why It’s Banned/Suppressed:
Why It’s Banned/Suppressed:
Challenges American capitalism and calls for wealth redistribution.
Too “politically radical” for many institutions and libraries.
Has been rejected from school reading lists due to its unapologetic pro-Black economic stance.
Recommended For:
Black entrepreneurs, economists, and business students
Community leaders and policymakers
High school and college students exploring race and economics
Commentary:
Anderson doesn’t just expose injustice—he offers solutions. This book is a roadmap for understanding why wealth inequality exists and how to reverse it from within.
The Miseducation of the Negro – Carter G. Woodson (1933)
Written by the “Father of Black History,” this classic explains how the U.S. education system was designed to keep Black people mentally enslaved. Woodson shows how Black children are taught to admire white culture while being cut off from their own legacy, and urges independent Black institutions and self-directed learning.
Why It’s Banned/Suppressed:
Seen as subversive to the U.S. public school system
Advocates for independent Black education and thought
Often left off reading lists due to its anti-assimilation stance.
Recommended For:
Teachers and homeschool educators
High school and college students
Faith leaders and mentors
Anyone working with or raising Black youth.
Commentary:
Woodson’s message is simple: If you control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to control his actions. This book is still shaking the foundations of classroom truth nearly 100 years later.
This bold work argues that Greek philosophy was largely stolen from Egyptian (African) sources. James claims that African intellectual traditions were erased and appropriated by Europeans, particularly in fields like math, ethics, and metaphysics.
Why It’s Banned/Suppressed:
Why It’s Banned/Suppressed:
Dismissed by academic institutions as “pseudo-history.”
Attacked for challenging the foundation of Western philosophical identity.
Frequently excluded from philosophy and history syllabi..
Recommended For:
Philosophy and history students
Afrocentric scholars and thinkers
Debaters and truth-seekers
Anyone interested in reclaiming African intellectual history
Commentary:
This book is controversial—but controversy doesn't mean it's wrong. James forces us to confront uncomfortable questions about stolen ideas and erased Black brilliance..
Rodney, a Guyanese scholar and revolutionary, meticulously details how European powers systematically exploited Africa through colonization, slavery, and economic domination. He argues that Africa’s poverty is not a product of African failure, but of deliberate European theft and destruction.
Why It’s Banned/Suppressed:
Why It’s Banned/Suppressed:
Banned in South Africa during apartheid.
Considered too Marxist, anti-colonial, and “divisive” for Western classrooms.
Rodney’s assassination (1980) highlights how dangerous this truth was seen.
Recommended For:
African and diaspora scholars
College students in political science or African studies
Liberation-minded educators and organizers
Pan-Africanists and global justice advocates
Commentary:
This book doesn’t beg for sympathy—it demands accountability. Rodney proves that Africa wasn’t backward—it was underdeveloped by force. His work remains a weapon against the lie that Africa "failed itself." It’s not history—it’s an indictment..
Bennett traces African-American history from its roots in Africa through slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement. It’s a sweeping, accessible timeline of Black endurance, achievement, and resistance—long before 1619 and far beyond slavery.
Why It’s Banned/Suppressed:
Often considered “too political” for school libraries.
Paints American history as one of exploitation, not equality.
Still ignored in most mainstream high school and college history courses.
Recommended For:
Teachers of U.S. and African American history
Families looking for real history beyond textbooks
Students K-12 and up, especially during Black History Month
Anyone looking to place Black people at the center of the American story
Commentary:
This is the book that proves we’ve always been more than what they taught us. Before the Mayflower belongs on every Black family’s bookshelf. It’s honest, loving, and unapologetically Black. Bennett doesn’t just tell history—he restores dignity.