Top 5 Books on Black History Everyone Should Read!
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- In this Review, I Reveal the Top 5 books on Black History That I Think Everyone Should Read!
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As a retired Navy man, I enjoy military history. One of my favorite books I read this year was 'All Blood Runs Red.' It is the fascinating story of Eugene Bullard, the first black American pilot who fought for France in the first World War. He went on to become a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer. An excellent and informative read.
Thanks for letting me know about this book! I will definitely be checking it out.
Something else I recommend is "The Velvet Rope Economy" (circa 2020) by Nelson Schwartz.
When I got done with this book, I understood why, everyone is taught to discriminate or be racist.
I have like a million books I want to read, but don't have the time or money to get my hands on. Thank you for the list, I will make sure to check them out sometime. Keep up the great videos :)
Glad you liked the list! I could have included several more, but if you can find time to read just 5, those are the 5 I would suggest checking out.
Enticing recommendations! Some I hadn't heard of before and I'm always happy to expand my TBR. 😁 My suggestion for a recommendation would be The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates Jr.. I loved the scope and spectrum of this anthology, both in terms of writers, literary forms and subjects. It was a very rich experience for me.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'm always looking for more books on black history both in the U.S. and from the larger African Diaspora.
so good! I can't believe you dont have a bigger audience
Thank You! I appreciate the support.
Slavery By Another Name and Medical Apartheid are both great books. Assata by Assata Shakur was very informative regarding the justice system in the 70s, and it was hilarious as well.
Great video.
Thank you !
My new idea was book showing black history to present, Kobe, Jordan, wilt, Tuskegee airmen, john lewis, Jackie Robinson etc
❤thank you for this list of reads
Glad you like it!
Thanks for this video! I'd also recommend five books I've read recently: Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson; The Sum of Us, by Heather McGhee; Half American, by Matthew Delmont; Teaching White Supremacy, by Donald Yacovone; and By Hands Now Known, by Margaret Burnham.
Thank you so much for the recommendations! All of these look really interesting and could potentially work if I end up doing an honors course on the back experience in the United States. And I may review some of these in future videos, along with some of the other recommendations I've received.
When I think of black history I think of books like , "Before The Mayflower", by Lerone Bennet, "Black History" , Albert Brimmer, ,
"The Miseducation of the Negro", by Carter G Woodson and a more modern book, "Four Hundred Souls", which is a compilation of authors
that was edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha BN. Blain.
Thanks for these recommendations!
Dr Jason Freeman thank you 🙏🏾.
I highly recommend these great black books . Written by black authors 👇🏾
1. Black economics - Dr jawanza kunjufu
2. Black love is a revolutionary act - Umoja
3. Malcom X autobiography - Alex Haley
4. Breaking the curse of willie lynch - alivin morrow
5. The new Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
One love ❤
Been meaning to read The New Jim Crow for a while now. Definitely will now
Thank you, I have 3 out of the 5 books recommended. I also suggest , How Europe underdeveloped Aftica by walter rodney; the destruction of black civilization by chancellor williams; Pre-colonial black africa by Cheikh Anta Diop; Medical Aparteid by Harriet A Washington; Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Rogers; the African origin of Civilisation: Myth or Reality; the interesting narrative of the life of Olauda Equiana:or Gustavus Vassa the african written by himself;
Book recommendations for your class is Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson or Caste by Isabel Wilkerson.
Thanks!
They did a movie on this.did they move to Los Angeles
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram Kendi and Keisha Blain. It's a collection of short essays (3-4 pages each) and poems from contemporary writers covering a host of historical topics.
Thanks for the sub Cuz! And thanks for the recommendation.
I have that book for a class in college still have the book
Hello~ I was in high school in the 70’s. We were assigned to read “Black Like Me” and to write a paper. About a white man blacking his face & skin to learn just how black men were treated. The other book is “Hellhound on His Trail,” by Hampton Sides whose father was an attorney for Dr. King.
A wonderful recommendation: The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, is a must read.
“The immortal life of life of Henrietta Lacks”
“Sounds like London”.
“A history of West Indies cricket”.
“Serena..Queen of the court”
“Unforgivable Blackness”…
I’m British and have read them all.
Thank you so much for these suggestions!
@@drjasonfreeman thanks to you..,
A bit heavy on sport but that’s the beauty of the the Afro experience and contribution to the world we live in….
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
How about Black AF History by Michael Harriot ?
Black Like Me had a great impact on me as a young white women in high school in the north.
Honorable Mention: Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington
5. Eyes On The Prize Juan Williams
4. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
3. Levittown David Kushner
2.The New Jim Crow Laws Michelle Alexander
1. Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglas An American Slave Benjamin Quarles
Up from slavery is a great book, a common sense book.
You should have said that your top five books for American history. Black American history is a drop in a bucket for black history. Not to mention the whole time during American history we are in captivity. I prefer history when we were autonomous and sovereign.
Great video. 👍Making sure to check some these out.
Thanks!
I am currently reading The Defender by Ethan Michaeli. Excellent.
The black renaissance authors. The coolest Winter ever by sister soldier.
I would like to recommend the book for you called. I am that I am the human origin story. The Real Holocaust by Edward B. Kirkwood
Thank You Dr. Freeman for making this contribution.
Your number one book, 'Narrative of Fredrick Douglass' has definitely been added to my shortlist.
But as a 70 yr old man, who grew up in one of the whitest suburbs in the Midwest North of Chicago,
I truly only began my black history journey in the last two years.
One of the books that turned me around was written by a white historian.
I am in the process of reading her book for the 3rd time, I had to unlearn what I thought I knew.
You really can’t claim to understand the United States until you understand the history of class struggle in America 🇺🇸
“White Trash: 400 Yr Untold History of Class in America”
ua-cam.com/video/s_Gq2qDwFpA/v-deo.html
(Start interview at 4:16)
And realize, that we were always considered to be at the bottom, underneath poor whites.
Everything made sense after reading that book... And especially today's current events.
The books by J.A. Rogers are interesting reads. The African history before the slave trade and the USA.
Thanks for the suggestions!
So many great books!
Okay Mr doctor if you know about black history was Abraham Lincoln black I'm just wondering
Multiple presidents prior to President Obama have been rumored to have African ancestry. However, to date, these are just rumors with no evidence.
Seems your channel has changed directions, but I would still recommend Clotel, or the President's Daughter by William Wells Brown. Great fictional narrative based on a lot of historically documented events.
Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Dubois should be added.
“They Were Her Property”, “The Color of Law”, “The Man-Not”.
Everything on this list is anchored around slavery. Any books on the history of Black greatness BEFORE slavery?
I plan to do a list of books written by African writers and some of them will deal with experiences other than slavery. But the list I'm presenting in the deals specifically with black history in the United States, which is tightly linked with slavery.
Dr Freeman: How about adjusting your camera so we don['t have to look up your nose? What's the problem? Do you like to "look down on people"?
LOL. I'll try to do better.
'Their Eyes were Watching God' seems similar to Kindred by Octavia E Butler in the immersive descriptions of slavery from a women's perspective. Gut-wrenching.
I've not read Kindred, but I loved "Their Eyes Were Watching God" because it told a story from a Black Woman's perspective, which included critiques of the treatment of Black women by black men. It made me reconsider how I interacted with black women in my own life and how my actions might affect them.
Wow! I believe I should check it out. Thank you 🙏🏾
@@drjasonfreeman hello neighbor ✌🏾 Years ago I remember my first painting of F. Douglass my art teacher telling me I was being to detailed. 😏 I guess I had my first deadline 😝
You did not mention the word technology. The technology of the cotton gin affected all of US by changing the economics of cotton.
I started reading Science Fiction in 4th grade. It changed my perspective of reality even though my mother called it "something crazy".
Black Man's Burden (1961) by Mack Reynolds
When Africa Awakes (1922) by Hubert Harrison
Both free in the public domain.
The computers are everywhere. There is No Escape!
Daemon & Freedom by Daniel Suarez
I stopped watching this when he started applying lotion.
Why lmao