I was on Barnes and Noble's website and I did a few searches for Black poetry, Black spirituality, and Pan-Africanism. Here are a few books (that cost 20 and under) that I suggest.

(Goes from least expensive to most expensive)

1. Life: The Lore and Folk Poetry of the Black Hustler

Dennis Wepman, Ronald B. Newman, Murray B. Binderman
Price: 3.50

2. Black Zodiac

Charles Wright
Price: 3.98

3. Black Voices: An Anthology of African-American Literature

Edited by Abraham Chapman, Malcolm X
Price: 8.95

4. My House

Nikki Giovanni
Price: 9.00

5. Speak, Brother! A Black Man's View of America

Roland S. Martin
Price: 9.95

6. Love Poems

Nikki Giovanni
Price: 11.20

7. No Disrespect

Sister Souljah
Price: 11.70

8. After Hours (Black Erotica)

Edited by Robert Fleming
Price: 12.60

9. Blessed Health: The African-American Woman's Guide to Physical and Spiritual Well-Being

Melody T. McCloud, Angela Ebron
Price: 12.60

10. Sound the Trumpet! Messages Sent to Empower Black Men

Darryl D. Sims (Editor)
Price: 12.60

11. Meditations with the Lakota: Prayers, Songs, and Stories of Healing and Harmony

Paul Steinmetz
Price: 12.95

12. Return of the Amasi Bird: Black South African Poetry

Tim Couzens (Editor), Essop Patel
Price: 12.95

13. Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace

Angel Kyodo Williams
Price: 13.00

14. Sleeping with the Dictionary

Harryette Mullen
Price: 13.45

15. Quilting the Black Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems

Nikki Giovanni
Price: 13.56

16. Black Butterfly: A Journey Through Life, Love, and Spirituality

Alisha N. Scott
Price: 13.95

17. Black Book: Poetry of Thought

Gene Rhea Tucker
Price: 14.95

18. Risks of Faith: The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation 1968-1988

James H. Cone
Price: 15.00

19. Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African-American Women

Akasha Gloria Hall
Price: 15.00

20. Bare Your Soul: The Thinking Girl's Guide to Enlightenment

Angela Watrous (Editor)
Price: 16.95

21. Spirituality of African Peoples: The Search for a Common Moral Discourse

Peter J. Pains
Price: 18.00

22. Heroism in the New Black Poetry

D.H. Melhem
Price: 18.00

23. Chocolate Thoughts

S. James Guitard
Price: 18.36

24. Black Spirituality and Black Consciousness: Soul, Force, Culture, and Freedom in the African

Carlyle Fielding Stewart
Price: 18.95

25. Blacks

Gwendolyn Brooks
Price: 19.95

26. Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love

Asra Nomani
Price: 19.96

27. Resurrection Song: African-American Spirituality

Flora Wilson Bridges
Price: 20.00

Remember, books help us to grow and learn!!

Peace

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Good list, Play...thanks sis!

:)

tyte list of many
i have a few so far will get more .....Thankz

to see how all the topics correlate,I suggest the POLAR BEAR THEORY by JOHN WOODARD. :)

thanks ......

my personal favorite is restoring broken vessels by

victoria L. johnson
much,
-story

ANOTHER VERY GOOD BOOK .....(((THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK)))
BY ....W.E.B.DuBois .............211 pages like 6 bucks

Here are a few more 4 the library I consider must haves:

The Destruction of Black Civilization (Great Issues of a Race From 4500 BC to 2000 AD)
written by Chancellor Williams $17.95

From N!ggas to Gods Vols.1&2 by Akil $12.95 & $14.95 respectively.

The Mis-Education of the Negro by The father of Black History week, later known as black history month, Carter G. Woodson $9.95

And my all time favorite.The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader by the man himself, Amiri Baraka, can't give U a price cuz I took it from a library, oops.


Thank U 4 the others, I gotta check 'em out.