Favorites

Books

  • Akbar, N. (1997). Breaking the chains of psychological slavery. Tallahassee, FL: Mind Production and Associates.
  • Baldwin, J. (1993). The fire next time. New York: Vintage Books.
  • Drake, St. Clair, & Clayton, H. R. (1945). Black metropolis: A study of Negro life in a northern city (Volume 1). New York: Hartcourt, Brace, & World.
  • Dubois, W. E. B. (1996). The souls of black folks. New York: Modern Library.
  • Ellison, R. (1995). Invisible man (2nd edition). New York: Vintage Books.
  • Fanon, F. (1967). Black skin white masks. New York: Grove Press.
  • Feelings, T. (1995). The middle passage. New York: Dial Books.
  • Frazier, E. F. (1997). Black bourgeoisie: The rise of a new middle class in the United States. New York: Free Press Paperbacks.
  • Freire, P. (1997). Pedagogy of the oppressed (New Revised 20th-Anniversary Edition). New York: The Continuum Publishing Company.
  • Grier, W., & Cobbs, P. M. (2000). Black rage. New York: Wipf & Stock Publishers.
  • Hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom. New York: Routledge.
  • Hooks, b. (2000). All about love: New visions. New York: William Morrow and Company.
  • Hooks, b. (2001). Salvation: Black people and love. New York: Harper Collins.
  • Hrabowski, F. A., III, Maton, K. I., Grief, G. L. (1998). Beating the odds: Raising academically successful African American males. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Majors, R., & Billison, J. M. (1992). Cool pose: The dilemmas of black manhood in America. New York: Touchstone.
  • Mays, B. E. (1987). Born to rebel: An autobiography. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
  • McCall, N. (1994). Makes me wanna holler: A young black man in America. New York: Vintage Books.
  • Suskind, R. (1998). A hope in the unseen: An American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League. New York: Broadway Books.
  • West, C. (1993). Race matters. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
  • Wilson, W. J. (1996). When work disappears: The world of the new urban poor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Woodson, C. G. (1990). Mis-Education of the Negro. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.

Music

  • Anita Baker: Rhythm of Love
  • The Best of the Isley Brothers
  • The Best of Luther Vandross
  • The Best of Roberta Flack
  • Blue Miles
  • Donnie McClurking Again
  • Donnie McClurkin Live in London and More
  • Kind of Blue
  • Lionel Richie: Truly the Love Songs
  • Miles Davis: The Complete Birth of the Cool
  • A John Coltrane Retrospective: The Impulse Years