Indigenous "Black" American History

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Historical Book Series

Trace Thy Roots Book Series

native Black American history has been hidden, rewritten, fragmented, and weaponized for centuries. The Trace Thy Roots Book Series exists to correct that record — not through opinion, but through documentation, receipts, and preserved evidence.

This growing body of work houses multiple historical and genealogical series, each focused on restoring a specific aspect of native Black American identity that was deliberately erased, misclassified, or reassigned.

Backed by newspaper archives, government records, institutional documents, and ancestral testimony, these books retrieve what was buried — not for validation, but for verification and vindication.

This page serves as the central home for all current and future Trace Thy Roots series.


We Built This Series Revelations Series

Who These Series Are For

These books are written for native Black Americans awakening to their true heritage.

They are for those in the 21st century who sense that something is off — who recognize that the stories they were taught don’t align with the evidence buried in archives.

They are for:

  • Researchers, educators, and historians

  • Genealogists and documentation-driven truth seekers

  • Spiritual and cultural rememberers

  • Descendants of those who survived reprogramming

Most of all, these series are for those ready to trace their roots beyond permission and beyond apology.

A Living Archive

The Trace Thy Roots Book Series is not static.

New volumes will continue to be added as records surface, archives are re-examined, and suppressed narratives are restored. Each book is both a standalone work and part of a larger reclamation project — one designed to grow with time, evidence, and remembrance.

This is not revisionist history.
This is documented history returning home.

We Built This [Beep] Series

Front cover of We Built This Beep by T’Malkia Zuri, a documented historical work on Black American builders, visionaries, farmers, and founders.

Title: We Built This [Beep]>>

Size: 6X9

Formats: Paperback, Hardcover

Pages: 395

We Invented This Beep Cover 11 9 2025

Title: We Invented This [Beep]>>

Size: 6X9

Formats: Paperback, Hardcover

Pages: Pending

We Taught This Beep Cover 11 9 2025

Title: We Taught This [Beep]>>

Size: 6X9

Formats: Paperback, Hardcover

Pages: Pending

Cover of We Ran This Beep, a documented Black American history book featuring archival newspaper text and bold typography.

Title: We Ran This [Beep]>>

Size: 6X9

Formats: Paperback, Hardcover

Pages: Pending

A Counter-Narrative Rooted in Receipts
Not Opinions or Narratives

Illustrated book cover featuring a young Black woman with natural locs standing tall, her torso transforming into deep roots merging with the land. Behind her, ancestral Black American faces emerge from golden clouds. The title reads: “Revelations of the Remembered – A Message for Black Americans Waking Up in the 21st Century” by Empress T’Malkia Zuri.

Title: Revelations of the Remembered>>

Size: 6X9

Formats: Paperback, Hardcover

Pages: 368

Black American history book cover – The Hidden War, Volume I of Revelations of the Remembered by Empress T’Malkia Zuri.

Title: The Hidden War>>

Size: 6X9

Formats: Paperback, Hardcover

Pages: 245

Front cover of The Reclamation: Culture, Land, and Identity in the Age of Awakening by Empress T’Malkia Zuri, featuring ancestral imagery in warm earth tones.

Title: The Reclamation>>

Size: 6X9

Formats: Paperback, Hardcover

Pages: 310

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