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Welcome to the Black Dot Cultural Center, where knowledge and empowerment converge. Step into our world and explore the renowned Black Dot Collection—a treasury of books that inform and inspire our community. With sections dedicated to African and African American history, psychology, science, and health, we invite you to embark on a journey of discovery and growth.

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Kazemde Ajamu
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It has been said that there are two things that held together great Black civilizations: honor and obligation. But how can students honor ancestors they were never taught about and how can they fulfill obligations they were never made unaware of? This book assists today's students with knowledge and ... Read More about
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Vulnerability and intimacy can feel scary... especially in today's world. Transformation is a compilation of poems and prose inspired powerful lessons learned during my coming-of-age journey. Join me, as I share how I broke free from mental bondage, generations curses, cyclical depression, suicidal ... Read More about
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Derrick T. Clark
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The 30 Love Laws were created to fill a void in our communities. There is a lack of true love in our relationships. This problem takes a toll on our family structure (especially our kids). A clear definition of a romantic LOVE will lead to a solid foundation. Contributions from the diverse, young an ... Read More about
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The astonishing personal and political autobiography of Stokely Carmichael, the legendary civil rights leader, Black Power architect, Pan-African activist, and revolutionary thinker and organizer known as Kwame Ture. Head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Honorary prime minister of ... Read More about
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Read the story behind the award-winning film Judas and the Black Messiah On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton’s fiancée. Deborah Johnson described how the police pulled her from the room as Fred lay unconscious on their bed. She heard ... Read More about
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Ani's 1994 work, Yurugu: An Afrikan-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior, examined the influence of European culture on the formation of modern institutional frameworks, through colonialism and imperialism, from an African perspective. Described by the author as an "intentiona ... Read More about
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Bayyinah Bello
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The power of pigment is pervasive throughout the planet and the cosmos. Without pigment, life would cease to exist. In fact, it is the key element that defines life on a social, political, physical and biological level. Moore provides a comprehensive context for the reader to understand both the pol ... Read More about
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"My message is that with the right system, and proper knowledge of that system, anyone can heal themselves." Chrysalis Sun The Complete Guide to Crystal Medicine is the first book of its kind to combine the science, metaphysics, and spirituality of the technique known as crystal medicine. Chrysalis' ... Read More about
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Elaine Brown
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"Profound, funny ...  wild and moving ... heartbreaking accounts of a lonely black childhood.... Brown sees racial oppression in national and global context; every political word she writes pounds home a lesson about commerce, money, racism, communism, you name it ... A glowing achievement.” —Los An ... Read More about
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Martin R. Delany
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Martin R. Delany's Blake (1859, 1861-1862) is one of the most important African American--and indeed American--works of fiction of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of Henry Blake's escape from a southern plantation and his subsequent travels across the United States, into Canada, and to Af ... Read More about
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Llaila O. Afrika
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african holistic health addresses health issues from a comprehensive african -centered viewpoint.it provides a complete guide to herbal remedies along with homeopathic disease treatments.what makes afrikan holistic health truly unique is the research dr. afrika has provided on the physiological and ... Read More about
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In the 16th century, the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured, and raped. They experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychological, and sp ... Read More about
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Carter Godwin Woodson
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The Mis-Education of the Negro is a book originally published in 1933 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. The thesis of Dr. Woodson's book is that blacks of his day were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools. This conditioning, he claims, causes blacks to become dependent and ... Read More about
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Frances C. Welsing
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During the course of the struggle of African people against European racism, brutality and domination, many innovative thinkers have risen from our ranks . The greatest and most courageous scholars have devoted their lives to the pursuit of an explanation for the virtually inherent animosity most wh ... Read More about
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Cheikh Anta Diop
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Now in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization. ... Read More about
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The Destruction of Black Civilization took Chancellor Williams sixteen years of research and field study to compile. The book, which was to serve as a reinterpretation of the history of the African race, was intended to be ""a general rebellion against the subtle message from even the most 'liberal' ... Read More about
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Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-cent ... Read More about
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Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau, A. M. Lukondo-Wamba
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“A landmark . . . brilliantly [demonstrates] has that there is far more to black history than the slave trade.”—John A. Williams They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America. Examining navigati ... Read More about
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The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package Tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black Panther Party. From Newton's i ... Read More about
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Assata Shakur
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On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a targe ... Read More about
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In this book you will read about; The Psychology of Womenhood. The Cycles of Womenhood, The 12 Major Tests of Life. The Most Important Function one comes to The Earth to perform. Rites of Passage for Women and The Goddesses who influence these Cycles and how they affect Your Personal Mystique. For G ... Read More about
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A recently discovered collection of folktales celebrating African American oral tradition, community, and faith...”splendidly vivid and true.”—New York Times Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the G ... Read More about
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An introduction to the spiritual source of the beliefs and practices that have so profoundly shaped African American religious traditions. Most of the Africans who were enslaved and brought to the Americas were from the Yoruba nation of West Africa, an ancient and vast civilization. In the diaspora ... Read More about
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At the height of medical technology and civilization, America has become the fattest and sickest nation to ever grace the earth. There was a time when food was our medicine, and the farmer our physician. But now industrialization has converted farms into factories, replaced produce for processed foo ... Read More about
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Iya Afin, Ayobunmi Sangode
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My Work is 'GLORIFYING The FEMALE FORCES'; "The GREAT MOTHERS", and The DIVINITIES "OSUN", "YEMOJA", and "OYA". This Book Focuses On These "FEMALE FORCES" And Some of Their COUNTERPARTS In OTHER PARTS of The WORLD. I Choose These "THREE" DIVINITIES because in The Culture of My People, The "FON" of D ... Read More about
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For centuries Western scholarship, and the African scholars seduced by this body of knowledge, have not been interested in African "religions" per se, but what was worse, African scholars began not to study indigenous African spirituality on its own terms but through European eyes and intellectual c ... Read More about
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Ra Sekhi Arts Temple
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Ojibwa Atum-Ra
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Are you looking to raise and maintain a high vibration in order to manifest the life of your dreams?   Through becoming selful, you will learn:   *How to observe your Mental and Emotional Processes *Why Boundaries are Essential to Growth *Why Values, Morals, & Integrity are Key *The Power of Sac ... Read More about
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Self-Rule is about reclaiming our hearts and minds from the world and living more true to ourselves. It warns of the dangers of trying to find self-worth or validation through external sources. It is a collection of essays and poems inviting the reader to look within themselves for strength, guidanc ... Read More about
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Bobby E. Wright
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Presents a thought-provoking examination of the group personality of Europeans, as manifest in their behavior towards Black people. In the essay "The Psychopathic Racial Personality," Dr. Bobby Wright contends that viewing white behavior towards nonwhites as psychopathic provides a new lens through ... Read More about
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2022 Hardcover Reprint of the Two Volume Edition, First Published from 1923 to 1926. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with OCR. This collection of Garvey's writing remains the most famous collection of Garvey's speeches and essays. Marcus Garvey and the "Universal Negro Improve ... Read More about
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MALCOLM X
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ONE OF TIME’S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim ... Read More about
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Charles V. Hamilton, Kwame Ture
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An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published.A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform ... Read More about
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Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
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In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism. ... Read More about
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Ngugi describes this book as 'a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in teaching of literature. North America: Heinemann; Kenya: EAEP. ... Read More about
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If the "World" is down today, it is directly because it has put the "Woman" down. How can the world expect to be uplifted, if it continually casts down "the doorway" through which all the world has come, and will come? (Stop-Think.)  -Blackwoman, do you really know who "you" are? -Do you know what i ... Read More about
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John Henrik Clarke (Editor)
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The success of John Henrik Clarke's American Negro Short Stories, first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction. 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. Chesn ... Read More about
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Marcus Garvey
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One of the most important and controversial figures in the history of race relations in America and the world at large, Marcus Garvey was the first great black orator of the twentieth century. The Jamaican-born African-American rights advocated dismayed his enemies as much as he dazzled his admirers ... Read More about
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From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (Toni Morrison)—the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God—a collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time. New York Times’ Books to Watch for Buzzfee ... Read More about
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Lalah Delia
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Tap into your inner power with this mind-opening guide to vibrational-based living from Instagram star and self-help pioneer behind the internet community Vibrate Higher Daily.“There is another way of being in the world. There is a better way to exist, rise, move beyond, and take our power back.” To ... Read More about
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An unapologetic exploration of the Black mental health crisis--and a comprehensive road map to getting the care you deserve in an unequal system. We can't deny it any longer: there is a Black mental health crisis in our world today. Black people die at disproportionately high rates due to chronic i ... Read More about
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