Black Classic Press

An Imprint of Black Classic Press

Black Classic Press

Founded in 1978, by W. Paul Coates, Black Classic Press is devoted to publishing obscure and significant works by and about people of African descent. They specialize in republishing works that are out of print and quite often out of memory. They began publishing because They wanted to extend the memory of what they believe are important books that have helped in meaningful ways to shape the Black diasporic experience and our understanding of the world.

Black Classic Press initial publishing efforts were intended to serve a small but interested group of readers with whom they shared a common love for the same type of book. Working with limited resources, their output of books has been slow but very consistent. It has been made easier by our readers who have become a large network of enthusiastic supporters who praise the books we publish and suggest new books for us to publish.

Influenced by their readers, they have published a list of titles that are essential to any well-rounded understanding of the Black experience. As you review their list of published books, which includes such authors as, Walter Mosley, Yosef ben-Jochannan, Charles L. Blockson, John Henrik Clarke, Eugenia Collier, George L. Jackson, E.Ethelbert Miller, Dorothy Porter and Bobby Seale, we think you will agree.

127 Publications Found

Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World
Futureland
Walter Mosley
Dec 2024
Return of the Kings
Return of the Kings
Laini Mataka
Jan 2024
The Cointelpro Papers: Documents from the Fbi’s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States
The Cointelpro Papers
Ward Leroy Churchill and Jim Vander Wall
May 2022
Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
Agents of Repression
Ward Leroy Churchill and Jim Vander Wall
May 2022
The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey
Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries: Florence Tate on Black Power, Black Politics and the FBI
Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries
Florence L. Tate and Jake-Ann Jones
Nov 2021
Andrew Billingsley Scholar and Institution Builder: Essays and Tributes
Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Race First
Tony Martin
Aug 2020
The Osiris Papers: Reflections on the Life and Writings of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
The Osiris Papers
Raymond A. Winbush and Dr. Denise Wright
Oct 2019
Pillars in Ethiopian History: African History Notebook Vol I
Pillars in Ethiopian History
William Leo Hansberry and Joseph E. Harris (editor)
Feb 2019
In African and Africans as Seen by Classical Writers: African History Notebook Vol II
In African and Africans as Seen by Classical Writers
William Leo Hansberry and Joseph E. Harris (editor)
Feb 2019
When the Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing Up Nuyorican in El Barrio
When the Spirits Dance Mambo
Marta Moreno-Vega
Apr 2018
Storming the Heavens: African Americans and the Early Fight for the Right to Fly
Storming the Heavens
Gerald Horne
Mar 2018
My Global Journeys in Search of the African Presence
Visions and Cyphers: Explorations of Literacy, Discourse, and Black Writing Experiences
Visions and Cyphers
David Green
Aug 2016
Social Action, Advocacy and Agents of Change
Social Action, Advocacy and Agents of Change
Ruby M. Gourdine and Annie W. Brown
May 2016
Introduction to African American Studies
Introduction to African American Studies
James Stewart and Talmadge Anderson
Sep 2015
Forbidden Fairways: African Americans and the Game of Golf
Forbidden Fairways
Calvin H. Sinnette
Jul 2015
Death of the Willie Lynch Speech: Exposing the Myth
Death of the Willie Lynch Speech
Manu Ampim
Apr 2015
A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X
A Lie of Reinvention
Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs
Mar 2015
The Island of Memes: Haiti’s Unfinished Revolution
The Island of Memes
Wade Nobles
Mar 2015
The Prince of Kokomo
The Prince of Kokomo
Laini Mataka
Jan 2015
The Graphomaniac’s Primer: A Semi-Surrealist Memoir
The Graphomaniac’s Primer
Walter Mosley
Jan 2015
Garvey and Garveyism
Garvey and Garveyism
Amy Jacques Garvey
Dec 2014
A Black Fire!
A Black Fire!
Ras Baraka
Apr 2014
Fathering Words: The Making Of An African American Writer
Fathering Words
E. Ethelbert Miller
Aug 2013
Kikuyu Women, the Mau Mau Rebellion, and Social Change in Kenya
Fidel & Malcolm X: Memories of a Meeting
Fidel & Malcolm X
Rosemari Mealy
May 2013
Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Blacks in Hispanic Literature
Miriam Decosta-Willis
Sep 2011
Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa
Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa
John Henrik Clarke
Aug 2011
When We Ruled: The Ancient And Mediaeval History Of Black Civilisations
When We Ruled
Robin Walker
May 2011
Ethiopia Unbound
Ethiopia Unbound
J.E. Casely Hayford
Jan 2011
Righteous Self Determination: The Black Social Work Movement in America
Righteous Self Determination
Patricia Reid-Merritt
Apr 2010
We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: African American Women Who Practice Polygyny by Consent
Race, Law, and Public Policy: Cases and Materials on Law and the Public Policy of Race
Race, Law, and Public Policy
Robert L. Allen
Apr 2009
Historical Sketches Of The Ancient Negro
Historical Sketches Of The Ancient Negro
Edward E. Carlisle and Josephine E. Carlisle
Jun 2008
The Tempest Tales
The Tempest Tales
Walter Mosley
May 2008
To All Gentleness: William Carlos Williams, The Doctor Poet
To All Gentleness
Neil Baldwin
May 2008
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing
Black Fire
Larry Neal and Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
Apr 2007
A Panther Is a Black Cat: An Account of the Early Years of The Black Panther Party - Its Origins, Its Goals, and Its Struggle for Survival
A Panther Is a Black Cat
Reginald Major
Jan 2007
Black Power and the Garvey Movement
Black Power and the Garvey Movement
Theodore G. Vincent
Dec 2006
Understanding the African Philosophical Concept Behind the "Diagram of the Law of Opposites"
The Black Man’s North and East Africa
The Black Man’s North and East Africa
Yosef Ben-Jochannan and George Simmonds
Nov 2005
Why Should White Guys Have All The Fun?: How Reginald Lewis Created A Billion-Dollar Business Empire
Why Should White Guys Have All The Fun?
Reginald F. Lewis and Blair S. Walker
Oct 2005
The Black Panther Party [Reconsidered]
The Black Panther Party [Reconsidered]
Charles E. Jones
Sep 2005
The Negro
The Negro
W.E.B. Du Bois
Aug 2005
The River Niger
The River Niger
A. Hamilton
Apr 2005
The aims and methods of a liberal education for africans
Stroud’s Slave Laws
Stroud’s Slave Laws
George M. Stroud
Apr 2005
Hebrewisms of West Africa
Hebrewisms of West Africa
Joseph J. Williams
Jan 2004
An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections: and others, which have occurred, or been attempted, in the United States and elsewhere, during the last two centuries
Cultural Genocide In The Black And African Studies Curriculum
What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace
What Next
Walter Mosley
Jan 2003
Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century
Beyond the Frontier
E. Ethelbert Miller
Sep 2002
William Cooper Nell: Selected Writings 1832-1874
William Cooper Nell
Dorothy Porter and Constance Porter Uzelac
Jan 2002
Shaka the Great
Shaka the Great
G. K. Osei
Jun 2001
When Divas Laugh: The Diva Squad Poetry Collective
When Divas Laugh
Ienett Nefertiti Allen, Linda Joy Burke, and Jaki Terry
May 2001
Introduction to African Civilizations
Introduction to African Civilizations
John G. Jackson
Jan 2001
Being a Strong Black Woman Can Get U Killed!!
Ancient Future
Ancient Future
Wayne B. Chandler
Dec 2000
Kindezi: The Kongo Art of Babysitting
Kindezi
K. Kia Bunseki
Jan 2000
Race, law and public policy: Cases and materials on law and public policy of race
Race, law and public policy
Robert Johnson
Jan 2000
African Contributions to Civilization
Banneker: The Afro-American Astronomer
Banneker
Will Allen
Sep 1998
Afro-American World Almanac: What Do You Know about Your Race?
Afro-American World Almanac
Ross D. Brown
Aug 1998
The Natural Genesis (2 Volume Set)
The Natural Genesis (2 Volume Set)
Gerald Massey
Jul 1998
African Glory: The Story of Vanished Negro Civilizations
African Glory
J. C. Degraft-Johnson
Jul 1998
Whispers, Secrets and Promises
Whispers, Secrets and Promises
E. Ethelbert Miller
Jun 1998
Death of White Sociology
Death of White Sociology
Joyce A. Ladner
Jun 1998
The Second Crucifixion of Nat Turner
The Second Crucifixion of Nat Turner
John Henrik Clarke
May 1998
Black Mutiny: The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad
Black Mutiny
William A. Owens
Dec 1997
The Exiles of Florida
The Exiles of Florida
Joshua R. Giddings
Nov 1997
The Name “Negro,” Its Origin and Evil Use
The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images
The Afro-American Woman
Sharon Harley and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
Feb 1997
Africa: Mother of Western Civilization
Africa
Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Feb 1997
Gone Fishin’ (Easy Rawlins, Book 6)
Gone Fishin’ (Easy Rawlins, Book 6)
Walter Mosley
Feb 1997
David Walker’s Appeal
David Walker’s Appeal
David Walker
Jan 1997
The Origin of Races and Color
The Origin of Races and Color
Martin R. Delany
Jan 1997
Blood in My Eye
Blood in My Eye
George Jackson
Dec 1996
We, The Black Jews: Witness To The ‘White Jewish Race’ Myth, Volumes I & II
We, The Black Jews
Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Dec 1996
The Story of the Moors in Spain
The Story of the Moors in Spain
Stanley Lane-Poole
Dec 1996
A Book of the Beginnings
A Book of the Beginnings
Gerald Massey
Dec 1996
When Africa Awakes
When Africa Awakes
Hubert Henry Harrison
Dec 1996
The Myth Of Genesis And Exodus And The Exclusion Of Their African Origins
100 Years of Lynchings
100 Years of Lynchings
Ralph Ginzburg
Nov 1996
Black Man Of The Nile
Black Man Of The Nile
Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Nov 1996
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
Seize the Time
Bobby Seale
Nov 1996
The Need for a Black Bible
The Need for a Black Bible
Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Mar 1996
Early Negro Writing - 1760-1837
Early Negro Writing - 1760-1837
Dorothy Porter
Jun 1995
A Tropical Dependency
A Tropical Dependency
Lady Lugard and Flora S. Lugard
May 1995
The Maroon Within Us: Selected Essays on African American Community Socialization
The Maroon Within Us
Asa G. Hilliard III
Mar 1995
Ancient Egypt the Light of the World: A Work of Reclamation and Restitution
Ancient Egypt the Light of the World
Gerald Massey
Mar 1995
Restoring the Queen
Restoring the Queen
Laini Mataka
May 1994
Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race
Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race
Edward Wilmot Blyden
Mar 1994
African Life and Customs
African Life and Customs
Edward Wilmot Blyden
Mar 1994
50 Plus Essential References on the History of African People
Breeder and Other Stories
Breeder and Other Stories
Eugenia Collier
Dec 1993
Fifty Days on Board a Slave-Vessel: In the Mozambique Channel April and May, 1843
Fifty Days on Board a Slave-Vessel
Pascoe Grenfell Hill
Nov 1993
The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
African People in World History
African People in World History
John Henrik Clarke
May 1993
African Origins Of Major "Western Religions"
African Origins Of Major "Western Religions"
Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Dec 1991
A Chronology Of The Bible: Challenge To The Standard Version
A Chronology Of The Bible
Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Jun 1991
The Ruins, Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires: And the Law of Nature
First Light: New and Selected Poems
First Light
E. Ethelbert Miller
Jan 1991
Book of African Names
Book of African Names
Chief Osuntoki
Jun 1990
The Tragedy of White Injustice
The Tragedy of White Injustice
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Jun 1990
The Tale of the Two Brothers
The Tale of the Two Brothers
Charles E. Moldenke
Sep 1988
Never As Strangers
Never As Strangers
Laini Mataka
Sep 1988
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
As Nature Leads
As Nature Leads
J. A. Rogers
Mar 1987
Burning at Stake in the United States
The Negro’s or Ethiopian’s Contribution to Art
Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire, Book 1
Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization
Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization
John G. Jackson
Jun 1985
Your History: From Beginning Of Time To The Present
Your History
J. A. Rogers
Jun 1983
The Real Facts About Ethiopia
The Real Facts About Ethiopia
J. A. Rogers
Jun 1982
Children of the Sun
Children of the Sun
George W. Parker
Jun 1981
Survey Graphic: Harlem, Mecca of the New Negro
Survey Graphic
Alain Locke
Jun 1980
Africa, the Wonder & the Glory
Africa, the Wonder & the Glory
Anna M. Graves
Jun 1980
Ku Klux Spirit
Ku Klux Spirit
J. A. Rogers
Jun 1980
Our Black Seminarians and Black Clergy Without a Black Theology
Black Genealogy
Black Genealogy
Charles L. Blockson
Jan 1977
Self-Healing Power and Therapy: Old Teachings from Africa
Self-Healing Power and Therapy
Fu-Kiau Kia Bunseki
Jun 1905
Richard B. Moore: Bibliophile, Activist Son of Barbados
Richard B. Moore
Joyce Moore Turner
Jan 1970
Higher Learning
Higher Learning
Karin L. Stanford and Charles E. Jones
Jan 1970
Word Hustle: Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines
Word Hustle
L.H. Stallings and Greg Thomas
Jan 1970
Women in Africa and the African Diaspora
Women in Africa and the African Diaspora
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn and Andrea Benton Rushing
Jan 1970

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