This work is a collection of seventy-four essays that mark the initial year of the blog site Manhood, Race and Culture. These essays cover the major political, economic, cultural, and social issues impacting the African-American community.

Creating Revolution as They Advance: A Narrative History of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense examines the historical context that facilitated the demise of the Civil Rights Movement's patience and the ascension of a much bolder and less patient mid-sixties Black Power politic. This work traces the creation of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland, California by Huey Percy Newton and Bobby Seale. Intended to be a community service organization, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense soon found itself as the Vanguard of the entire Sixties Protest scene and the number one...

O'Bruni: An African-American Odyssey Home? is an ethnographic study that follows an African-American to Africa, his 'ancestral homeland'. This study follows Dr. James Thomas Jones III as he travels throughout Ghana in pursuit of answers regarding his place of origin, a place that most people would refer to as home. Dr. Jones soon discovers that connecting with his 'ancestral homeland' is more problematic and convoluted than he could have ever imagined as he finds that his Ghanaian kinsmen possess a plethora of diverse and divergent thoughts regarding African-Americans and their desperate...