What a year it has been, right? We have been away for a while, so what's been going on? Tune in and find out what's coming on Books & Black Coffee. Bookworms unite!

Books mentioned in this episode :

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Overture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R James 

Things Fall Apart by Chenua Achebe

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by Bell Hooks

Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Ardent 

Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

The Mind of Africa by W.E Abraham

Oh my Gods - Fiona Stoffer

C. L. R. James interview on his book "Black Jacobins" (1970) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUnO8lfoVBk

Music Credit : Africa Maasai Kids by SOFRA

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Akala’s Natives led this conversation in several directions as we explored its layers through class, community, race, poverty, and lived experiences. The hope is to collectively work to ease the human experience by accommodating its diversity, complexities, and suffering.

Other resources:

100 Amazing Facts About The Negro - With Complete Proof by Joel Augustus Rogers

What's Wrong With Being Black: Celebrating Our Heritage, Confronting Our Challenges by Matthew Ashimolowo

Microaggressions and Modern Racism - Endurance and Evolution by Charisse C. Levchak

Music credit: Best Time - FASSounds

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The Glass Bead Game is hoops we jump through and streets we navigate with a map that we create. It is an invitation to check our nature and our traditions and let them collide with our education. Fight mentally with our perspectives as we engage in a to and fro complicated by stories and concepts that don’t consider chronological order, just application. 

Music credit: Miyagisama - Savannah Time Travel

Music mentioned:

UB40 - One In Ten

Nispsey Hussle - Blacc Ice

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