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The Isley Brothers - Fight the Power (p. 3)

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The Isley Brothers - Fight the Power (p. 3)

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The Isley Brothers - Fight the Power, Pts. 1 & 2 (Official Audio)

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Idris Muhammad - Could Heaven Ever Be Like This (p.5)

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Idris Muhammad - Could Heaven Ever Be Like This (p.5)

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Idris Muhammad - Could Heaven Ever Be Like This

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Donald Rodney - In the House of My Father (p.21)

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Donald Rodney - In the House of My Father (p.21)

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A Tribe Called Quest & Phife - Butter (p.79)

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A Tribe Called Quest & Phife - Butter (p.79)

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A Tribe Called Quest and Busta Rhymes-   Scenario - Brooklyn  2011

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Jidenna Performs 'Classic Man' on The Eephus Tour

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This is the story of a city. The northwest corner of a city. Here you'll find guests and hosts, those with power and those without it, people who live somewhere special and others who live nowhere at all. And many people in between. Every city is like this. Cheek-by-jowl living.

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Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk (p.115)

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Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk (p.115)

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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK | Official Trailer

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Boyz n the Hood (1991) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers

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"Grief" taken from Earl Sweatshirt's new album I DON'T LIKE SHIT, I DON'T GO OUTSIDE. Download the album on iTunes here: http://smarturl.it/IDLSIDGO Follow Earl: http://www.earlsweatshirt.com/ http://www.facebook.com/EarlSweatshirtMusic http://www.twitter.com/earlxsweat https://instagram.com/soapmanwun/ Music video by Earl Sweatshirt performing Grief.

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Saidiya Hartman, Literary Scholar and Cultural Historian | 2019 MacArthur Fellow

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Teju Cole - Death in the Browser Tab (p.148)

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Teju Cole - Death in the Browser Tab (p.148)

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Frank Ocean Type Beat 2021 - "real friends" | Frank Ocean Blonde Type Beat

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Roy DeCarava | Couple dancing (1956) | Artsy

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From Heritage Auctions, Roy DeCarava, Couple dancing (1956), Photogravure, 12 1/8 × 7 3/4 in

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The Destruction of Black Civilization, by Chancellor Williams (p. 130)

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The Destruction of Black Civilization, by Chancellor Williams (p. 130)

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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' white authors (and their Negro disciples): 'You belong to a race of nobodies. You have no worthwhile history to point to with pride." The book was written at a time when many black students, educators, and scholars were starting to piece together the connection between the way their history was taught and the way they were perceived by others and by themselves. They began to question assumptions made about their history and took it upon themselves to create a new body of historical research. The book is premised on the question: "If Blacks were among the very first builders of civilization and their land the birthplace of civilization, what has happened to them that has left them since then, at the bottom of world society, precisely what happened? The Caucasian answer is simple and well-known: The Blacks have always been at the bottom." Williams instead contends that many elements—nature, imperialism, and stolen legacies— have aided in the destruction of the black civilization.

The Destruction of Black Civilization is revelatory and revolutionary because it offers a new approach to the research, teaching, and study of African history by shifting the main focus from the history of Arabs and Europeans in Africa to the Africans themselves, offering instead "a history of blacks that is a history of blacks. Because only from history can we learn what our strengths were and, especially, in what particular aspect we are weak and vulnerable. Our history can then become at once the foundation and guiding light for united efforts in serious[ly] planning what we should be about now." It was part of the evolution of the black revolution that took place in the 1970s, as the focus shifted from politics to matters of the mind.

About the Author:  Chancellor WilliamsTotally uncompromising, highly controversial, broadly sweeping in its range and immensely powerful in its scope, there have been few books published during the past half-century focusing on the African presence in antiquity that have so profoundly affected the consciousness of African people in search of their historical identity. Dr. John Henrik Clarke, now an ancestor and a contemporary of Dr. Williams and one of our most outstanding scholars, described The Destruction of Black Civilization as "a foundation and new approach to the history of our race." In The Destruction of Black Civilization Chancellor Williams successfully "shifted the main focus from the history of Arabs and Europeans in Africa to the Africans themselves--a history of the Blacks that is a history of Blacks."

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You cool, you real cool, playing it cool. Keeping it real, cool, until---(p. 152, though also earlier in the book).  

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You cool, you real cool, playing it cool. Keeping it real, cool, until---(p. 152, though also earlier in the book).  

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/28112/we-real-cool

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We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks | Poetry Magazine