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1) Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. 2) The Alchemist by Paul Coehlo. 3) Surely you must be joking by Richard Feynman. 4) A Brief history of time Stephen Hawking. 5) The easy tarot guide by Marsha Marshino. 6) The Faces at the bottom of the well. by Derrick Bell. 7) Negrophobia by Darius James. 8) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. 9) The places you'll go by Doctor Seuss. 10) Eastern and Western Mysteries David Alan Hulse.

Please provide some constructive feedback on this video. Let me know what was good and what could be done better. Y'all know I have thick skin so don't worry about being perceived as hypercritical. I'm working with a book club called called The Tea, and am hoping to use videos like this to promote the best of Black literature, and I want to make them better. No matter what you think please subscribe to The Tea's and AALBC.com's Youtube Channels to keep this videos like this coming. The books highlighted in the video include: Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives by Dana Canedy, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave, and Rachel L. Swarns I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni, Illustrated by Ashley Bryan Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies by Dick Gregory Ballerina Body: Dancing and Eating Your Way to a Leaner, Stronger, and More Graceful You by Misty Copeland Keep #readingblack

Hey @Kalexander2, thanks for that thoughtful post. You may be right about Black folks, in general pursuing, material wealth. But this is the American culture. Our peculiar brand of capitalism is dependent upon this. But from my vantage point, I find it difficult to see it that way. Most of the people I surround myself don't operate that way. Nobody I know, who sells books, does it to get rich. So I appreciate I may be in a bubble. I feel more people are starting to realize that the practice of acquiring of more and newer things is simply unfulfilling. I don't know who said this first, but you can never get enough of what you don't need. It seems to me people are becoming more interested in expanding their minds, than getting the newest iphone. But again that could be because I surround myself by readers...

Actor Chris Rock Says Black Christians,Are Black People With No Memory. On Slave Plantations ,Slaves Were Given The Bible. The Kidnapped Slaves,African People Had Their Own Religion. Slave Owner Telling The Slaves Should Follow Bible Become Christians,When Slave Owner Is Beating,Killing Them, After Buying Them Like Cattle,Using The Bible To Condone Their Own,Evil Wicked Behavior..Bible Does Not Say A White Baby Was In The Manger... Bible Contradictions About The Season Time Of The Birth..Dark Religious Question,If Not For Slave Owners,Christian Belief Would Their Be Christianity In The Black Community. Forgotten Original African Religion..Present Time,White Supremacy -White Christianity....

Christmas Day On The Slave Plantation,Slaves Not Working Because It's Christmas,Slave Owner Who Tortures Them,Whip Them Brings Christmas Cheer..Giving Them Gifts Of Good Cuts Of,Meat And Fruit That They Don't Get The Rest Of The Year..After The White Church Choir Stop Singing Christmas Hymns,Plantation Preacher Finish Giving A White Baby In The Manger Sermon. Plans Of Slaves Escaping Has Begun. Christmas Night,As The Slave Owner Celebrates With His Family,And Friends With House Slaves Joyfully Serving Them,Elder Slaves Beginning Singing Swing Low Sweet Chariot,,Telling The Slaves To Get Ready To Escape. Harriet Tubman Coming,She Not Gonna Wait...Slaves,Men,Women And Children Wearing Tattered Clothes Some Feet Bare ,Come In The Winter Cold Breeze. They Stay Off The Road,Traveling Among Bushes And Trees. .They Leaving South ,North They Travel Toward. Harriet Looks Up At The Stars,Guided By The Drinking Gourd...Slave Owner Know They Gone,Slave Catcher And Dogs,Slaves They Pursue..Harriet Knows Safe Houses And Secret Routes...Come To A Safe House,She Say Get In The Barn Quick,Beneath The Floor. Slave Catcher At The Quaker Safe House Door...Dogs Loudly Barking,Slave Catcher In The Barn Looking Around . Slaves Beneath The Floor Not Making A Sound..Not Finding Any Slaves,Slave Catcher Goes Further Down The Road. Sure He Gone,Harriet Leads The Escaped Slaves Back Out In The Cold..Slave Catcher And His Dogs Have Fade. In The Ohio River Harriet And The Slaves Did Wade...After Few Days,Hiding The Day In Safe Houses ,Traveling At Night,They Reach The North Destination,,Weary Minds And Bodies.. No More,Torture Chains And Whips ,We Free From Bondage Misery..

I shared your main page @Mel Hopkinshttps://melhopkins.com cause I didn't want to share a page that had less to eye catch

Yeah Peppermint Patti presented butch, but was was strickly-dickly. She even had a thing for 'ol Chuck B., But Cuckie boy's amorous energies were directed to toward the more feminine little redheaded gal.

Cynique mentioned the dictionary as one of her top 10 books. I actually considered listing it, but declined because I honestly haven't sat down and read an entire dictionary from cover to cover. I've gotten started numerous times....lol....but haven't completed it yet. Del What was Life after Life ? Sorry, I didn't see your question earlier...... Life After Life was a ground breaking book by Dr Raymond Moody about people who have actually died and their soul/spirit traveled to the "otherside" and came back to tell about it. It's one of the books that helped me to make the transition from traditional religion to a more pure Theism. It also strengthened my belief in the afterlife....or more properly the "afterdeath". Speaking of Charlie Brown...... Wasn't Peppermint Patty the first lesbian cartoon on television.....lol. She looked just like Charlie Brown but with hair, had a masculine voice, and had that little girl following her around calling her "sir".

As discussed the focus of the club has changed from the negative (boycotting Amazon), to the positive, supporting the businesses to support Black books. On social media the hashtag #readingblack will be used and doman readingblack.com will point to this website. My initial goal will be to encourage folks to read books by Black writers and to buy those books from Black booksellers and to provide the services device strategies to facilitate this process.

I initially had about thirteen books. Snowy Day wasn't that Jack Ezra Keats. I reread his books to my son. Too bad about the flack he caught. He seemed like a well meaning man. Do you remember the Charlie Brown Christmas. Franklin was the only black kid. He was the only one on the other side of the table. He was also the only one with a lawn chair and it was broken.

1. The Dictionary 2-10. The biographies of the many noteworthy people i have read over the years. Up until recently, i have been an avid reader all of my life, and i couldn't begin to narrow down the titles of all the fiction books i've read. If i finished them, then they impressed me. The dictionary has always been my enabler. Every word definition is a story unto itself.

Del was a good idea: Fun with Dick and Jane A Snowy Day World Book Encyclopedia Dr. Seuss Books (all) Charles Shultz Peanuts (all) Encyclopedia Brown (all) Alice in Wonderland Cane Beloved Who Owns the Future I know it looks like a crazy list; only 3 of the authors are Black and I've only added 4 of the books to this site. All of these books (and more) have stuck with me for one reason or another. #1 was the first book I remember reading. #2 was the first book I ever saw with a Black boy in it and I recall being surprised by the that--and I was really very young at the time.

There are so many............ These aren't in any particular order of importance and I'm sure there are some that SHOULD be included in the top 10 that I'm not thinking of right now but here are 10 just off the top: Message To The Black Man (The Honorable Elijah Muhammad) Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington) The Phantom Tollbooth Black Labor White Wealth (Claud Anderson) Mein Kampf (Adolph Hitler) The Bible The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Alex Haily) Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill) Time Machine (H.G. Wells) Life After Life (Dr Raymond Moody) It's been years since I've read them and I don't have the best memory in the world to remember every detail of them, but I do remember how much I got caught up reading these book and just thinking about them still brings comfort to this day.