Dedicated to the memory of Sean Bell and Michael Donald...Respect... ...VOTE...Fight, Fight the Power, You've GOTTA Fight the Powers That Be! (Thanks, Isley Brothers and Public Enemy)
BOOKS (TRY TO READ A BOOK A YEAR!)
* The Covenant with Black America by Tavis Smiley
* 40 Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden
* Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation by Natalie Hopkinson, Natalie Y. Moore
* Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It by Juan Williams
* Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race by John Hoberman
* Must Be the Music by G. Alexander Jenkins, Esq.
* The 12 Universal Laws of Success by Herbert Harris
* Your Money and Your Man: How You and Prince Charming Can Spend Well and Live Rich by Michelle Singletary
* Not Just the Levees Broke: My Story During and After Hurricane Katrina by Phyllis Montana-Leblanc with foreward by Spike Lee
* Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang and D.J. Kool Herc
* Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
* Crossing the Threshold by Talayah G. Stovall and Valencia, E. Edner
* Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by Michael Eric Dyson
* To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic by William Jelani Cobb
* Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor
* Black Enterprise Titans of the B.E. 100s: Black CEOs Who Redefined and Conquered American Business by Derek Dingle
* Did Jesus Say That?" Lyons
* Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
* Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey C. Ward
* Leaving Atlanta: A Novel by Tayari Jones
* Reallionaire: Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out by Farrah Gray
* Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Plus) by Bart D. Ehrman
* 100 Bullshit Jobs...And How to Get Them by Stanley Bing
* You're Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting Ahead by Larry Winget
* Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life) by Cathie Black, President of Hearst Magazines
* Who's Gonna Take the Weight: Manhood, Race, and Power in America by Kevin Powell
* New Black Man by Mark Anthony Neal
* Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot by Pearl Cleage
* Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality by Rudolph Byrd and Beverly Guy-Sheftall
* Advance Your Swagger: How to Use Manners, Confidence, and Style to Get Ahead by Fonzworth Bentley