October 2008 Reading List

- The Black List
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Elvis Mitchell - The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, Mothering, and Other Things I Learned the Hard Way
Diahann Carroll - Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry–From Music to Hollywood
Terrance Dean - The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
Steve Lopez - Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary
Jasmine Guy - Not Just the Levees Broke: My Story During and After Hurricane Katrina
Phyllis Montana-Leblanc - Maybe You Never Cry Again
Bernie Mac - Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
Rebecca Walker - Your Girlfriends Only Know So Much: A Brother’s Take on Dating and Mating for Sistas
Finesse Mitchell - Nice Dreads: Hair Care Basics and Inspiration for Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Locking Their Hair
Lonnice Brittenum Bonner - Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics
Donna Brazile - The Go Green East Harlem Cookbook
Scott M. Stringer (Editor) - Know Thyself
Na’im Akbar - Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa
Colin Grant - Dirty Red
Vickie M. Stringer - The Street
Ann Petry - Wild Seed
Octavia E. Butler
















I heard Hiding in Hip Hop was a luke warm book.
Def looking forward to reading, The Legs are the last to go