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One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

Ishmael Reed, Dramatist


  • 47 by Walter Mosley - 2005

  • Beloved - Toni Morrison - 1987
"Toni Morrison's "Beloved" was named the best work of American fiction in the last 25 years by the New York Times Book Review. The honor was granted to Morrison based on responses from more than 120 outstanding writers, critics, editors, and other literary greats. It received 15 votes." Jet magazine, 2006

  • Black Empire - by George Samuel Schuyler & John A. Williams - 1991


  • Black People: For Entertainment Purposes Only - by W. Ivan Wright - 2007

  • Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, & Their Fans - by Jeffrey A. Brown - 2001

  • Brothers & Sister - Bebe Moore Campbell - 1994

  • Boldfaced Lies - by Charlene Porter - 2006
Received the The 38th NAACP Image Awards nomination for "Outstanding Literary Work By A Debut Author

  • Faces at the Bottom of The Well - by Derrick Bell - 1992 "Racism is an integral, permanent, and indestructible component of this society", says the Author. An allegorical mixture of fact and fiction, controversial civil rights activist Derrick Bell, argues that racism is so ingrained in American life that no matter what blacks do to better their lot, they are doomed to fail as long as the majority of whites do not see their own well-being threatened by the statuse quo. Bell calls on blacks to face up to this unhappy truth and abandon the misleading vision of "we shall overcome." Only then will blacks, and those whites who join them, be in a position to create viable strategies to alleviate the burden of racism. Critics have called this book "disturbing", "chilling", "shocking", to "entertaining" and untimately "inspiring". We say read, learn, and maybe grow. - BlackMenRead.com

  • Flesh & The Devil - by Kola Boof - 2004

  • Future X - by Kent Smith - 1990

  • The Freelance Pallbearers by Ishmael Reed - 1967

  • The Healers - by Ayi Kwei Armah - 1978


  • Things Fall Apart - by Chinua Achebe - 1958

  • Two Thousand Seasons - by Ayi Kwei Armah - 1973 Two Thousand Seasons is set in the harshest century of the Atlantic Slaving War that for three hundred years devastated Africa while lifting Europe to affluent world dominance. This novel tells the story of a terror soaked age from the viewpoint of Africa's slaughtered millions.

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  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - 1947

 

  • Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed - 1972


  • Parable of the Sower - by Octavia Butler - 1993

 


  • Parable of the Talents - by Octavia Butler - 1998

  • The Reed Reader - by Ishmael Reed - 2001

  • Shades of Memnon (Book 1) by Brother G - 1999

  • Street Life - by Jihad - 2007

    "If Jihad has been able to "wake up," then the sleeping giant of African-American manhood slumbering in our urban ghettos can and must be awakened. This is a penetrating tale of the walking death that characterizes our young men and the process of transformation through re-education that can wake them up and how the testimonial of their resurrection can wake up others." Dr. NA'IM AKBAR

  • The Spook Who Sat By The Door by Sam Greenlee - 1969

  • Them - by Nathan McCall - 2007