5 Books Published by Kabili Press on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

released in time for the fraternity’s 2014 Centennial anniversary celebration. Dr. Samad is the Director, Writer and Co-Producer of a newly released documentary, What Of The Day, on the 100 year society changing contributions of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.

In his latest work, bestselling Author/Columnist/Race Scholar, Anthony Asadullah Samad, takes a scholarly, but irreverent, look at American Institutions (race, politics, religion and education) and dominant cultural practices (national identity, racism, sport, social stigmatism, sex, redemption, counter-culturalism, popular acceptance and tragedy) in a comparative analysis of societal cultural shifts that have occurred since the passing of the 20th Century. A cultural critique of American society, this book examines the increasing influence of "pop culture" practices in American society. The author draws parallels between American life in the 20th Century and the socio-political and economic realities of the 21st Century—many of which are dominant practices that have yet to be acknowledged in a truer construct of societal normality. The "new normal" in American society is unfamiliar to an "old America" still viewing the nation in an outdated cultural paradigm.

Many of the "culture clashes we witness in American society today are functions of changes that have occurred, many barely visible but present in plain sight. This book chronciles high profile events and issues occurring in American society before, during and after the millennium change. It examines the national "cultural mindset" (anti-intellectualism, nacissism, popular blackness, immigration, Negrophobia, Islamophobia, hypersexuality, greed and heroism) in popular culture lexicon and draws on the realities of historical and traditional norms in contemporary, "new thought" philosophies that drive "what is real" in contemporary American society. REAL EYEZ is a real look at race, reality and politics in a new 21st Century America.

Saving The Race: Empowerment Through Wisdom is a book of essays and daily affirmations for young men who face hard challenges in everyday life, and face the unique challenge of being black males under siege in America. The book is designed to inspire young men to think positive, to aspire to achieve, resist negative influences and build faith in their efforts to be successful in life, in love and in their accomplishments. Saving The Race targets America’s "at-risk" populations, young men who are at a crossroads in life; young men re-entering society from the juvenile justice and corrections systems; young men afflicted by gangs and the pressures of sex, alcohol and drugs. Saving The Race encourages young men to view failure and momentary challenges as life lessons and opportunities to succeed.

50 Years After Brown: The State of Black Equality in America is an assessment of the state of equality for Blacks in America. Examining equality in the context of the legal successes and policy challenges of Brown versus. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the U.S. Supreme court case that give African Americans full protections under the 14th Amendment when the high court declared Separate by Equal de jure segregation unconstitutional, this book assesses what equality truly means in America and whether Blacks have achieved it on the fifteth anniversary of the case.

Cultural Writing. African American Studies. SOULS FOR SALE: THE DIARY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN is a riveting portrayal of a second generation advocate’s experience in the post civil rights era of the 1980s. Anthony Asadullah Samad offers this retrospect through the eyes of a young advocate’s effort to give back to his community, when he takes up membership in the local branch of the NAACP. As a lead official of the Los Angeles NAACP (Vice President 1985-88, President 1988-89), Samad (whose name was Anthony Essex at the time) discovered that the progressive civil rights agenda has been supplanted by inner race conflict and leadership succession battles within the organization, and a cultural compromise that came with the Reagan era social and economic reconstruction (1981-1988). Samad is currently the host of the Urban Issues Forum of Greater Los Angeles, a monthly public affairs forum that discusses critical issues impacting American’s urban cities.