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