Connections Remembered is a non-fiction book addressing the many African contributions to human origins and civilization and their impact on healthy racial identity among Black people today. It offers a historically grounded account of the remarkable accomplishments of ancient Africa and her people. It is written for adults and particularly concerned with augmenting the educational process for Black children in American schools to help shape a healthy racial identity especially during their formative years. The book is an updated version of a 1998 edition and is expanded to include three additional chapters, making eight sections. Suggested activities to engage groups of learners have also been added. This edition focuses the framing around the linkage between Black self-concept and what Black people have been taught through Eurocentric curricula about African American's historical roots. It debunks the flawed perception that Black history began with as dehumanized plantation slaves. Quite the contrary, Black people have a glorious history beginning in Africa where the very first seed of life was found, and thereafter the original humans and cultures.

From there, the world was populated and benefited from the high cultural achievements in science, religion, scholarship, and architecture. Eventually learning from African was not enough, Europeans pillaged and stole from Africa, eventuating in the rape of Africa through the transatlantic slave trade and dispersion of Africans around the world. These ongoing devastating experiences and destruction of west African civilizations were justified and reinforced through the psychological assault on Black identity, wherein Europeans, then Americans, waged a vigorous campaign, using violence and mental trauma, to make of Black people enduring slaves in the mind along with the body. Black people still suffer from these negative identity shaping experiences, which have been reinforced through contemporary methods. These psychically-damaging practices include inferior school curriculums, engineered wage disparities, redlining in housing, mass incarceration, inferior health care, and other manifestations of institutionalized racism.