Can’t educate your own self? No worries. @yale have a free online course: African American History: From Emancipation to the Present. 25 video lectures that come with all the reading material. Transcripts are available for all lectures as are mp3s so you can listen while being served beer by someone earning less than the living wage in a hazmat suit at your newly opened local boozer. ‘The purpose of this course is to examine the African American experience in the United States from 1863 to the present. Prominent themes include the end of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction; African Americans’ urbanization experiences; the development of the modern civil rights movement and its aftermath; and the thought and leadership of Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X.’ The link is in the bio ‘Readin’ is good fo may’ - King Kurtis