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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
Websites
Film
- Dreamgirls (Widescreen Edition)
- Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Widescreen Edition)
- The Last King of Scotland (Widescreen Edition)
- Last Stand (2006)
- Akeelah and the Bee (Widescreen Edition)
- Thank You for Smoking (Widescreen Edition)
- A Day Without a Mexican
- Tsotsi
- 500 Years Later
- Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
- The Boys of Baraka
- Snatch (Widescreen Edition)
- Sex and the City - The Complete Series (Collector's Giftset)
- Talk to Me (Widescreen Edition)
- The Great Debaters
- I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America, by Byron Hurt
- Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, by Byron Hurt
- NO! The Rape Documentary, by Aishah Simmons
Television
- Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip - The Complete Series
- 30 Rock
- The Office
- The Golden Girls
- When the Levees Broke - A Requiem In Four Acts (Documentary)
- Seasons of the Tiger, BET
- Singletary Says, TV-ONE
- Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
- Noah's Arc
- Project Runway
- The Best Shorts (BET J)
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
- The Best Of The Colbert Report
- The News Hour (PBS)
Theatre
- Sometimes I Cry - The Lives, and Losses of Women Infected and Affected by HIV/AIDS (written and performed by Sheryl Lee Ralph)
- Three Mo’ Divas
- The Color Purple (2005 Original Broadway Cast)
- In The Heights
- The Color Purple (2005 Original Broadway Cast)
- A Chorus Line - The New Broadway Cast Recording (2006 Broadway Revival Cast)
Music
- Robin Thicke: Evolution of Robin Thicke
- Corrine Bailey Ray: Like A Star
- India Arie: Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship
- Anthony David: The Red Clay Chronicles
- LYFE: The Phoenix
- KuKu: Unexpected Pleasures
- Sy Smith: The Syberspace Social
- Anthony Hamilton: Soulife
- Wayna, XXX
- KEM Album II
- Jaheim: Ghetto Classics
- Ghostface Killa: Fishcale
- Common: Be
- Estelle: Shine
- Chrisette Michelle: I Am
- Eric Roberson: Left
- Kanye West: Graduation
- Mary J. Blige: Growing Pains
- Jill Scott: The Real Thing: Words And Sounds Vol. 3
- Kuku: The Absence of Cool
- Sy Smith: Conflict
- Wayna: Higher Ground
- Bomani Armah :Radio Friendly
- Lupe Fiasco: The Cool
- Little Brother: And Justus for All
Not Recommended
- Michael Richards (Kramer from Seinfeld) - newly added
- It's No Secret: From Nas to Jay-Z, from Seduction to Scandal--a Hip-Hop Helen of Troy Tells All by Carmen Bryan (Nas' Baby Mama Book)
- newly added
- Flavor of Love: The Complete First Season
- Dem Franchize Boys
- Dipset: The Movement Moves On
- Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.– Milan Kundera
