What are your favorite books, which books do you think are MUST READS for all Nubians, what are you reading right now (if anything)?


MUST READS:

Autobiography of Malcolm X: Ed. Alex Haley
The Isis (Ysis) Papers: Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
Behold, a Pale Horse: Ralph Ellison
(Selections from) Husia: Ed. by Dr. Maulana Karenga
A People's History of the United States: Dr. Howard Zinn
Powernomics: Claude Andersen
Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. DuBois

FAVORITES:

Empower the People: Tony Brown
Conspirators' Hierarchy (Story of the Committee of 300): Dr. John Coleman
Know Thyself: Dr. Na'im Akbar
From the Browder File: Anthony Browder
The Science of Self-Realization: A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

READING NOW:

Souls of Black Folk (re-read)

i'll b sure to check out some off these great reads u speak on

"Soul on Ice" Eldridge Cleaver
"Notes of A Native Son" James Baldwin
"I Put A Spell On You" Nina Simone (autobiography)
"The Debt" Randall Robinson
"Up From Slavery" Booker T. Washington
"Value In The Valley" Iyanla Vanzant
"Black Lies, White Lies" Tony Brown
"The Heart Of A Woman" Maya Angelou ( the 2nd in her evolving autobiographical series)


MUST READS.... in my humble opinion

"The Debt" R. Robinson
"Up From Slavery" B.T. Washington
"Black Lies, White Lies" T. Brown
"Soul on Ice" E. Cleaver


Reading Now: non/fiction mix

The Bible - King James Version, books of Proverbs and Acts (re-read) :)....ongoing
"Black Boy" Richard Wright (re-read)
"Native Son" Richard Wright (re-read)
"Sisterfire, Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry" compiled/edited by Charlotte Watson Sherman

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$$RICH$$, PLEASE read something by Na'im Akbar or Anthony Browder! Although I do refer back on occasion to Dr. Cress Welsing's "Ysis Papers" when the need arises. It's like a handbook on life to be kept in every Black home, in my opinion.

Oh, and "A People's History of the United States" is a very thick text, but even if you just read a few excerpts from it, you cannot go wrong.

Great ones, Alyce, I agree with ya on "Soul On Ice" (have yet to read it in its entirety, but it is actually one of the books I have facing forward on my book shelf. Also, Richard Wright and Tony Brown. I'm feeling these suggestions.

"They Came Before Columbus" by Ivan van Certima

for your suggestions sista Nia... I must re-visit "Souls of Black Folk", a definite favorite during my college years..."Malcolm X", another great one.

I will be checking "They Came Before Columbus"... my children and I were just discussing this.

Keep this section open... information is our wealth!

thank you

a

This book has me so absorbed, it is ridiculous!!!

It is not only hitting me with heavy points one paragraph after another, but the points are composed in such a...

such a...

such a ~poetic~ form, that I am just overtaken by the beauty of the language DuBois uses. I'm gonna have to share some of the lines when I have the book in here near the 'puter. This book is poetry, philosophy, sociology and black liberation all rolled into one! A masterpiece!

ORIGINAL AFRICAN HERITAGE EDITION OF THE HOLY BIBLE.AFRICAN PEOPLE AND EUROPEAN HOLIDAYS:A MENTAL GENOCIDE BOOK ONE & TWO BY REV.ISHAKAMUSA BARASHANGA.RACIAL MATTERS BY KENNETH O'REILLY.NEVER SATISFIED(HOW & WHY MEN CHEAT) BY MICHAEL BAISDEN.CONVICTED IN THE WOMB BY CARL UPCHURCH.100 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE NEGRO AND SEX AND RACE BY J. A. ROGERS.STOLEN LEGACY BY GEORGE G. M. JAMES.THINK AND GROW RICH:A BLACK CHOICE BY DENNIS KIMBRO.AFROCENTRICITY BY MOLEFI K. ASANTE.REAL SOUL FOOD BY STACEY LYN EVANS.GIFTED HANDS BY BEN CARSON M.D. THE FIRE NEXT TIME BY JAMES BALDWIN.AFRICAN HOLISTIC HEALTH BY LLAILA AFRICA.ANY THING BY JAWANZA KUNJUFU OR NA"IM AKBAR.THE DESTRUCTION OF BLACK CIVILIZATION BYCANCELLOR WILLIAMS.THE SPIRIT OF A MAN BY IYANLA VANZANT.SO FAR SO GOOD BY GIL SCOTT-HERONBLACK ROBE,WHITE JUSTICE BYBRUCE WRIGHT.THE AFRICAN ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION BY CHEIKH ANTA DIOP.

ANYTHING BY AMIRI BARAKA,MAYA ANGELOU,NIKKI GIOVANNI,OR SONYA SANCHEZ.SPIRIT REBELLIOUS BY KAHLIL GIBRAN AND THE PROPHET BY KAHLIL GIBRAN(CAN BE READ ONLINE).

Now THIS is what I'M talking about!

:spinstar::spinstar::spinstar::spinstar::spinstar: 5 stars for those selections!

I just want to add,"Sand and Foam" by Khalil Gibran, and also.....


I have yet to read "Racial Matters", J.A. Rogers is a very heavy one. Still in the middle of Afrikhan Holistic Health, read "Know Thy Self" recently by Akbar, definitely "Afrocentricity", thouroughly benefitted from Kunjufu's "Black Economics", and saw him recently at the State of the Black World Conference in a lecture. Gotta get Gil Scott Heron's book!

Did I mention Walter Rodney? Gerald Massey?

ANYTHING by the following scholars:

Dr. Cheik Anta Diop
Dr. Chancellor Williams
Dr. Amos Wilson
Dr. Runoko Rashidi
Dr. Leonard Jeffries
Dr. Molefi K. Asante
Dr. Na'im Akbar
Dr. Maulana Karenga
Dr. Asa G. Hilliard
Dr. John Henrik Clarke
Dr. Ivan Van Certima
Dr. Cornel West
Dr. W.E.B. DuBois
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
Dr. Marimba Ani
Dr. Llaila Afrika
Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Dr. Charles Finch

and the list goes on.....

DBarka, what are you reading presently?

I'm vibing off of all of the above listed by our brotha DBaraka and you my sista.....

question: how can we write if we do not read?

ok, I'm through.... :)

thank you again!!!

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I took a couple of classes from DR Na'im Akbar when he was teaching at Norfolk State University.The man is brilliant!As a matter of fact DR Akbar will be speaking at Old Dominion University Feb. 28,2002.I will be there.

Dr. Akbar will be present yet again at the National Conference on the Black Family, which will convene on March 14th and run through the 17th in Louisville, KY at the Galt House Hotel.

Who won't be all up in the front row? I'm THERE!

Dr. Kunjufu will be there as well.

Needless to say, the "Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey" is a winner.

I want to attend! :( (take good notes Nia, like I know you will)
Going to the book store immediately. You all have definitely whet a sistah's appetite...for more!

a

Consider it done, Sista Alyce.

And BTW, you can find some excellent selections at

www.Timbooktu.com

and

www.blackconsciousness.com

Happy, heavy reading!

thanks sis... Timbooktu is already on my favorites list...(must delve into it MUCH mo regala from now on).... trekin on ova to blackconsciousness.com with a quickness.

ty again

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