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The Color of Money Black Banks And The Racial Wealth Gap💰💰💰 The large sized book to the right is one that covers a lot of issues associated with most of the other reviews I've given during my Black Enterprise journey. The Color Of Money compiles many of the issues that America has faced years after slavery, racism, segregation, Jim Crow, and much more. The topics in this book are an overview of how destructive those bad generational norms continue to plague America, the black community, banks, and the world as a whole. Failure to open more channels of success to minority communities is more of a conscious choice rather than a social one. Author Mehrsa Baradaran does a great job in exposing the government for their clear and blatant racism when it comes to minority communities.  The government - said to be made of the people and for the people, single handedly failed in its due diligence to hold up the ideals of America, thus making most of America's ideals come off as a joke

  Precolonial Black Africa 𓁃𓀠𓀢𓀧 This mid to large size book, originally written in French, gives readers a gateway into what Africa was like before the colonization. "Precolonial Black Africa" gives readers a detailed outlook on what life was like amongst the earliest Africans. The book sheds light on what the early Africans did for a living, how they saw each other, how they handled conflicts, how they conquered other lands, how they practiced religion, and a number of other things.  Throughout the book, Cheikh Anta Diop divides the text into sections that focus on the different angles of political and social systems.   For example, section 2 or II or the book goes into detail on what the socio-political status of Africa was at the time.   Sections later on in the  text talk about the education levels that was present during precolonial black Africa. The text is well rounded overall and makes the reader(me) feel like they're sitting in an exclusive African American H