The Race Beat
by Gene Roberts & Hank Klibanoff

An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press—and the journalists responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and ‘60s.

Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen—black and white—revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings that compelled its citizens to act. Meticulously researched and vividly rendered, The Race Beat is an extraordinary account of one of the most calamitous periods in our nation’s history, as told by those who covered it.

GIANT: The Road To The Super Bowl

by Plaxico Burress

In Giant, Plaxico Burress takes you into the locker room, onto the practice field, and into the huddle, providing a flat-out-honest look at life on and off the field with the New York Giants and at the making of a champion.

When he first joined the Giants, Plaxico expected to be the go-to guy for the young quarterback Eli Manning. What he didn't expect was the media and fan scrutiny that was heaped on Manning as they battled to win games.

It's all here. The ups and downs, the trash-talking, the sweat and blood, and what it takes to be the best.

Wonders
Questions Exploring Black and White Culture

by J. Earl Ricks

Wonders is a collection of 169 candid questions analyzing the relationships and behaviors of White people and Black people and Black people and themselves -  questions designed to stimulate thought about controversial issues and ideas and provoke positive change in society. Although the questions are open-ended, the author has suggested potential answers to stimulate discussion. Author Earl Ricks takes a courageous step in challenging us to confront these sensitive topics, so that we can begin the process of finding solutions to racial and cultural biases.

Dr. Scott Whitaker
Jose' Sayyed-Fleming, B.Sc. CSTCM, CNC

This book is a fascinating and unique perspective of the unholy practices of allopathic medicine and the commercialization of devitalized and chemical based foods.

Trainwreck: The End of the Conservative Revolution (and Not a Moment Too Soon)

by Bill Press

Once champions of fiscal responsibility, conservatives have brought us, instead, record high federal spending and bloated budget deficits. Once leery of foreign entanglements, conservatives have launched us, instead, into an unprecedented age of imperial wars and conquests. Once apostles of honesty and integrity in government, conservatives have, instead, used their positions of power to enrich themselves or evade the rule of law.

For decades, conservatives struggled to topple liberals from the federal throne, but, once in power, they didn't deliver. Everything they touched, they trashed. Here is the story of who, how, and why.

April 4, 1968

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Death and How It Changed America

On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King—the prophet for racial and economic justice in America—ended his final speech with the words, “I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the Promised Land.”

Acclaimed public intellectual and best-selling author Michael Eric Dyson uses the fortieth anniversary of King’s assassination as the occasion for a provocative and fresh examination of how King fought, and faced, his own death, and we should use his death and legacy. Dyson also uses this landmark anniversary as the starting point for a comprehensive reevaluation of the fate of Black America over the four decades that followed King’s death.

Eat, Pray and Love

by Elizabeth Gilbert

Oddly but aptly titled, Eat, Pray, Love is an experience to be savored: This spiritual memoir brims with humor, grace, and scorching honesty. After a messy divorce and other personal missteps, Elizabeth Gilbert confronts the "twin goons" of depression and loneliness by traveling to three countries that she intuited had something she was seeking. First, in Italy, she seeks to master the art of pleasure by indulging her senses. Then, in an Indian ashram, she learns the rigors and liberation of mind-exalting hours of meditation. Her final destination is Bali, where she achieves a precarious, yet precious equilibrium. Gilbert's original voice and unforced wit lend an unpretentious air to her expansive spiritual journey.

Twilight at Monticello:  The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson

by Alan Pell Crawford

"…a well-researched narrative of Thomas Jefferson's post-presidential years—with a notable non-emphasis on the best-known aspect of those years, Jefferson's correspondence with Adams. Crawford deserves credit for focusing on less trampled ground and for shedding new light on Jefferson's dysfunctional family life and shopaholic tendencies." - Michael Grunwald (Washington Post)

On The Road To Freedom

by Charles E. Cobb, Jr.

This in-depth look at the civil rights movement goes to the places where pioneers of the movement marched, sat-in at lunch counters, gathered in churches; where they spoke, taught, and organized; where they were arrested, where they lost their lives, and where they triumphed.

Einstein:  His Life and Universe

by Walter Isaacson

A century after Albert Einstein began postulating his "Big Idea" about time, space, and gravity, a new biography examines the scientist whose public idolization was surpassed only by his legitimacy as one of humanity's greatest thinkers. Walter Isaacson, the author of excellent profiles of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger, utilizes a trove of material from recently opened Einstein archives to offer a probing look at a provocatively freethinking individual.

Mirror to America:  The Autiobiography of John Hope Franklin

by John Hope Franklin

John Hope Franklin is one of the greatest historians that America has ever produced, and he is also one of the most valuable citizens we have ever produced. His memoir, though written in a calm, modest, and understated prose, is lucid and illuminating throughout, and readers seeking the emotional core of this great man and great scholar need only read to find it.

A People's History of the United States: 1492 - Present

by Howard Zinn

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times

by Willie Brown

Basic Brown is a compendium of insights and stories on the real forces governing power in American political life that will leave you looking at politics anew. It is also the inspiring and funny story of the rise of a gawky teenager in mail-order shoes and trousers who rose to entertain royalty and schoolchildren, superstars and supersize egos, the saintly and the scholarly, while working to transform and open American politics. If you ever wanted to learn how to be slick, a shark, a do-gooder, and a man of your word, Willie L. Brown, Jr., is the storyteller for you.

I See Black People:  The Rise and Fall of African American-Owned Television and Radio

by Kristal Brent Zook

I See Black People is a narrative history of the behind-the-scenes politics of black television and radio ownership, including the stories of the failure of the Black Famlly Channel, The World African Network, and Russell Simmons Fabulous TV, as well as that of Catherine Hughes, who’d aggressively acquired radio stations, becoming the first black woman to head a firm that publicly traded on the stock exchange. While securing its place in the marketplace, the company is now 20 percent black owned. By offering insights into the failure of public policy that have impeded black access to ownership through the last thirty years, the author explores that current state of black media and questions its direction.

Culture Bullies:  Exposing Absolute Have and Hypocrisy Parading As Conservative Christian Values

by Anonymous

The book Culture Bullies has been written to expose absolute hate and hypocrisy parading as Conservative Christian values in Bill O'Reilly's book, Culture Warrior.

Culture Bullies very clearly shows that "Conservative Values" have nothing in common with and even diametrically opposed to "Judeo-Christian" values.

Saviors or Sellouts: The Promise and Peril of Black Conservatism, from Booker T.Washington to Condoleezza Rice

by Christopher Alan Bracey

What exactly is a black conservative, and why would anyone choose to be one? wonders Professor Christopher Bracey, an African American, a liberal, and a Democrat. Though black conservatives are quickly becoming the most visible and prominent voices within African American politics and culture, few of us realize that the black conservative tradition pre-dates the Civil War and is an intellectual movement with deep historical roots. Saviors or Sellouts is an original and penetrating account of a puzzling phenomenon in American culture and politics.

Barack Obama's first book, Dreams from My Father, was a compelling and moving memoir focusing on personal issues of race, identity, and community. With his second book The Audacity of Hope, Obama engages themes raised in his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, shares personal views on faith and values and offers a vision of the future that involves repairing a "political process that is broken" and restoring a government that has fallen out of touch with the people. --Daphne Durham

"Alek's book is appropriately titled in my opinion, she is not the girl of an impoverished African village or primitive tribe, she is not the rags to riches to story. She is Alek, a unique life force that has been affected and infected by the life around her.  This was a special treat for me for many reasons but mainly because it reinforced my hope that our kids are listening; not only to our words but to their environment. It was again a special treat for me...to be infected with the spirit of Africa, to feel the power of her words and her love for herself...who she truly is." - Ashante F. (Minneapolis, MN)

"Many historians portray Dred Scott as a victim.  But in his historical-fiction novella, Randy Clyde Hoyle portrays Dred Scott as more that a victim, but also a Black hero whose personal struggle for freedom caused a chain reaction that allowed Lincoln to become president and thus end slavery in the rebelling slaves states...This is a story of how out of defeat, victory can still be obtained, reminiscent of the myth of the phoenix.  The Ballad of Dred Scott argues that we as individuals can change society, if we don't give up our dreams." - Excerpt from Dred Scott: A Black Heroic Being - A Public Domain Review by Evelyn Eaker

"This movie is a must see for every American. You need to see how secretive the companies are that make the electronic voting machines and how easily they are hacked. This is the most informative movie you will ever see about the machines we entrust with our democracy. And most telling is when they hack a machine in minutes and change the outcome of a mock election. You must see this!" - K.B. (KS)

"Black has taken on a project of epic proportions. In the book's introduction he confesses that a complete study of Iraq history would fill volumes and volumes. While he has tried to reduce the vast data to a readable portion, he hopes that you are spurred to your own investigation and study if so inclined. Nevertheless, you will be appropriately dazzled by the exhaustive research done by Black's world wide teams. The unprecedented access to private, university and governmental archives bestows Black's study with a unique, meticulous, scrupulous originality and veracity." - Avid One

"Written by a pair of international experts in the skill of diabetes management, Healing Our Village: A Self-Care Guide To Diabetes Control is a straightforward guide for the lay reader covering basic issues needed for proper health when treating and maintaining one's own diabetes condition. From basic nutritional concerns, to blood tests, taking proper care of one's feet, avoiding and coping with diabetes complications, a handy chart of diabetes control guidelines, and much more, Healing Our Village condenses the "need-to-know" information and puts it at the fingertips of those who need it most. An excellent resource for anyone who has diabetes or a diabetic family member." - Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI)

Washington Post Series

Thomas likes to say the cuts don't bleed, but his anger, his resentment, his hurt are hard to mask. "I've been called names. I've been accused of things that didn't happen. Fine, but I'm still here," he told a group of black conservatives in 1998.

With Ghettonation, acclaimed journalist and author, Cora Daniels, takes on one of the most explosive issues in our country today in this thoughtful critique of America's embrace of a ghetto persona that is demeaning to women, devalues education, celebrates the worst African American stereotypes, and contributes to the destruction of civil peace.