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Diggin History Assessment An A Sign Of The Times of the Carolinas 2015 - Diggin’ History Through Music and Dance I. Pre / Post Assessment (Before presentation ) (After presentation ) Diggin’ History Questions? Answers Answers 1. 2. 3. II. Kwanzaa / Black History - Suggested Reading List Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family Community and Culture MaulanaKarenga The African American Holiday of Kwanzaa MaulanaKarenga Selections From the Husia MaulanaKarenga Million Man March Day of Absence: Mission Statement MaulanaKarenga Reconstructing Kemetic Culture MaulanaKarenga Maat The Moral Idea of Ancient Egypt MaulanaKarenga To Your Journey (http://www.creative-interchange.com/about/) Ahmad Daniels The Signs & Symbols of Primordial Man Albert Churchward Blues People Amiri Baraka Blueprint for Black Power Amos N. Wilson Black-on-Black Violence Amos Wilson The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness Amos Wilson The Development Psychology of the Black Child Amos Wilson The Maroon Within Us Asa G. Hilliard III African Power Asa G. Hilliard III SBA:The Reawakening of the African Mind Asa G. Hilliard III Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization Anthony T. Browder Psychopathic Racial Personality Bobby Wright The Ruins of Empires C.F. Volney The Mis-Education of the Negro Carter G. Woodson The Destruction of Black Civilization Chancellor Williams The Rebirth of African Civilization Chancellor Williams Echoes of the Old Darkland Charles Finch The Star Of Deep Beginnings Charles Finch Introduction To African Civilization: Myth or Reality Cheikh Anta Diop Civilization or Barbarism Cheikh Anta Diop Precolonial Black Africa Cheikh Anta Diop Cultural Unity of Africa Cheikh Anta Diop Towards African Renaissance Cheikh Anta Diop David Walker’s Appeal David Walker "Wonderful Ethiopians of the Cushite Empire" Drusilla Dunjee Houston From Columbus to Castro Eric Williams The Isis Papers Frances Cress Welsing Stolen Legacy George James Claiming Earth Haki R. Madhubuti The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Harold Cruise The African-American Odyssey Hine, Hine, and Harrold Black Women In Antiquity Ivan Van Sertima Egypt: Child of Africa Ivan Van Sertima Blacks in Science Ivan Van Sertima They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America Ivan Van Sertima Golden Age of the Moor (Journal of African Civilizations) Ivan Van Sertima Egypt Revisited Ivan Van Sertima African Presence in Ancient America Ivan Van Sertima African Glory J.C. deGraft-Johnson Intellectual Warfare Jacob H. Carruthers Essays in Ancient Egyptian Studies Jacob H. Carruthers MdwNtr Jacob H. Carruthers The Irritated Genie Jacob H. Carruthers Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin Fulcrums Of Change Jan Carew Kemet and the African Woldview Carruthers and Karenga Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys JawanzaKunjufu Cane Jean Toomer Introduction to African Civilizations John G. Jackson World’s Great Men of Color: Volumes I & II Joel Augustus Rogers Nature Know No Color-line Joel Augustus Rogers Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa John Henrik Clarke Malcom X: The Man and His Times John Henrik Clarke Why Africana Studies John Henrik Clarke Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Joy DeGruy Kwanzaa: Learning Guide For Parents, Teachers & Children Joyce Morrow-Jones Yurugu Marimba Ani Let The Circle Be Unbroken Marimba Ani Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Martin Luther King, Jr. The Origin of Races and Color Martin R. Delany The Maroons of Jamaica Mavis C. Campbell The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander Kemet, Afrocentricity and Knowledge Molefe K. Asante Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery Na'im Akbar Know Thy Self Na'im Akbar Return To The African Mother Principle of Male and Female Equality Oba T’Shaka Fifty Day on board a Slave Vessel Pascoe G. Hill The Biography of MilesDavis Quincy Troop Rameses III Father of Ancient America R.A. Jairazbhoy The African Origin of Biological Psychiatry Richard King Melanin A Key To Freedom Richard King Slave Culture Sterling Stuckey African Philosophy: The Pharaonic Period 2780-330 BC TheophileObenga Ancient Egypt & Black Africa TheophileObenga There Is A River Vincent Harding Dusk of Dawn W.E.B.Dubois The World and Africa W.E.B.Dubois Souls of Black Folk W.E.B.Dubois How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Walter Rodney Ancient Future Wayne Chandler Pillars of Ethiopian History William Leo Hansberry White over Black Winthrop D. Jordan Black Man of the Nile Yosef ben-Jochannan African Origins of the Major Western Religions Yosef ben-Jochannan For Young Readers Black Americans of Achievement---A Book Series of Martin L. King Chelsea House Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, Mary McLeod Bethune, Marcus Garvey, Publishers Denmark Vesey, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. DuBois, Nat Turner and Others My First Kwanzaa Book Deborah Chocolate Lessons From History---Elementary JawanzaKunjufu Lessons From History---Jr./Sr. JawanzaKunjufu To Be Popular or Smart JawanzaKunjufu HarbariGani?= What’s The News? A Kwanzaa Story SundairaMorninghouse My First Trip To Africa Tony Browder Dress the African Way: An Activity Book for the FamilyAmazon or you Nooma Monika Rhue can buy directly from my blog at http://mutgriot.wordpress.com Seven Spools of Thread Angela Shelf Medearis Seven Days Of Kwanzaa Angela Shelf Medearis My First Kwanzaa Book Paperback-Music by Sweet Honey and the Rock Deborah Chocolate Other Suggested Books: .
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