This listing represents sources that were utilized for the writing of our books. If you want to learn more we direct you to the following archives and resources.


Niam Akbar, Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery (Jersey City, New Jersey: New Mind Productions, 1989)

RaUn Nefer Amen, Metu Neter (New York: Khamit Corporation, 1990)

Rudolph Arnheim, Visual Thinking. (Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1969)

Barbara DeAngelis, Are You The One For Me? (New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group 1992)

Ellen Dissanayake, Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why (New York, New York: The Free Press, 1992

David Driskell, Two Centuries of Black American Art (Los Angeles: California Museum of Art, 1979)

Will Durant, The Reformation (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957)

Peter M. DuBourguet, The Art of the Copts (London: Crown Publishers, 1967)

Paulo Freire, Education for Critical Consciousness (New York, New York: Seabury Press, 1973)

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York, New York: Seabury Press, 1973)

David Freedberg, The Power of Images (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989)

Janice E. Hale-Benson, Black Children: Their Roots, Culture and Learning Styles (Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press, 1982)

Jules Harrell, Manichean Psychology (Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1999)

Maulana Karenga, The Husia, Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt (Los Angeles: The University of Sankore Press, 1981)

Verena Kast, The Dynamics of Symbols (new York, new York: Fromm Publishing, 1992)

Wayne Kritsberg, The Invisible Wound (New York: Bantam Books, 1993)

Dr. Willi Kurth, Albrecht Durer: Complete Woodcuts (New York, New York: Crown Publishers, 1946)

Alain L. Locke, The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art (Washington: Association in Negro folklore, 1936)

Henry S. Lucas, The Renaissance and the Reformation (New York, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957)

Shaun McNiff, Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination (Boston, Massachusetts: Shambhala, 1992)

Michael Parsons, How We Understand Art (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press, 1987)

Flinders Pertrie, Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt (London: Foulis, 1909)

W. Ellwood Post, Saints, Signs and Symbols (Wilton, Connecticut: Morehouse-Barlow, 1983)

Herbert Read, Icon and Idea (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1955)

Colin Rose, Malcolm Nichol, Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century ( New York, New York: Delacourt Press, 1997)

Mary Morgan Riley, Leadership Begins With You (New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 2000)

Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artists (New York: Abbeville Press, 1990)

Francis Russell, The World of Durer 1471-1528 (New York, New York: Time Incorporated, 1967)

Robert Howard Russell, The Apocalypse Designs by Albert Durer (New York: R.H. Russell Communications, 1900)

Michael Samuels and Mary Lane, Creative Healing (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1998)

Charles W. Talbot, editor, Durer in America: His Graphic Work (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1971)

Wole Soyinka editor, Poems of Black Africa (Kenya: Heinemann Books, 1975)

Frances Cress Welsing, The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (Chicago: Third World Press, 1991)

Sue Williamson, Resistance Art in South Africa (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989)




“Art in the Spirit of the Lord” , American Visions, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp.16-20.

“Afro American Art 1800-1950”, Ebony, 23:116-118.

“An Artist Challenges the Bible”, Sepia 19:42-45, Mar 70, Sepia 8:67 Dec. 60

“Great Women in Negro History”, Sepia 8:67 Oct, '60

“Girl who put life into Stone”, Negro History Bulletin, 16:205-206, June, '53.

“Ending the Western Established Church of Art”, Essence I:15, Jan '71.

“E. Lewis Arrives in Rome”, Negro History Bulletin 40:688-689 (M-A, '77)

African American Women Artist: An Historical perspective, Sage 4, No. 1, Spring 1987: 17-24.VIDEOS

“African Art, Women, History: The Luba People of Central Africa”, VHS Video, 28 minutes, produced by Linda Freeman