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He Talk Like a White Boy
Reflections on Faith, Family,
Politics, and Authenticity - By Joseph C. Phillips, Foreword by Tavis Smiley
As a young student, Phillips overheard someone say "He talk like a White boy!" He never thought that his education and speaking correctly would cause others to question his authenticity as an African American. Little did he know his future choices in music, politics, faith, and family have given rise to many accusations of his not being "Black enough" as a Hollywood actor and Cosby Show star.


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Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice
Foreign Policy, Race, and the
New American Century - By Clarence Lusane
Under the global and U.S. political radar, Lusane has authored a provocative and groundbreaking look at the intersection of racial politics and American foreign policy. His insightful work critically examines the roles of Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice in the reconstruction of United States foreign policy, exploring the ways in which their African American identity challenges conventional notions about the role of race in international relations.

Letters to a Young Brother
MANifest Your Destiny - by Hill Harper
Having addressed thousands of high-school and middle-school students over the years, actor Hill Harper is ready to take his message to an even wider audience. Letters to a Young Brother is drawn from the humbling life lessons he learned on the road to his Ivy League education and beyond. Inspired by the countless letters and e-mails he has received from teens, Harper set out to write a series of inspiring real-world letters to young people that would catch the attention of even the most reluctant readers.


	REALITYCHECK: Paying The Reparations Debt *An Essential, Effective & Easily Earned Dividend*


		*Considering Education Reparations --* There is no longer a real question or reasonable debate against the need for paying a reparations debt to Black American citizens. It is clearly in our national economic, social, and moral interests. Over the last 150 years, there have been many formal and informal efforts and promises to pay America’s actual victims, immediate relatives, or indigenous citizen-descendents of the slaves that produced the economic success and future of America. Over 100 years before this continent became the United States of America, African slaves were the backbone, muscle and flesh used to jump-start the economies of the original 13 colonies from Savannah-Georgia to New Hampshire. This head start sparked the unprecedented economic and political growth of a new nation -- within a comparatively short and tumultuous 150-plus years -- into a global superpower . . . MORE >







			BOTTOMLINES Words, Truth & Integrity: How Oprah Affirmed Trust

RealityCheck: The Iraq In the 'Hood Connection In what is surely the latest example of chickens coming home to roost, the US military is experiencing a major decline in the recruitment of young Black men . . . MORE >

*Pryor Convictions and Other Life Sentences* Richard Pryor does something no other comic genius has done before -- he takes listeners deep into his life, baring himself before audiences as he exposes his . . . MORE >

BottomLines: After 25 Years, Is BET Relevant ? A $3 billion media enterprise still profits from stereotyping Black culture, proving 'Brain Empty Television' is not the exclusive venue of mainstream White media . . . MORE >

*The New Basic Black* Just in time for the holiday season and beyond, a newly revised modern manual of African American manners and etiquette that has become an genuine classic . . . MORE >

*Queens* From the afro to the ponytail to dreadlocks to braids to relaxed hair to fantasy hair; from "good hair" to bad hair days, in this stunningly designed book . . . MORE >

*Hung* "Hung" is a double-entendre, referring not only to penis size but to the fact that Black men were once literally hung from trees, often for their perceived sexual prowess . . . MORE >

*Target Zero - A Life in Writing* Kathleen Cleaver chronicles the words and life of former Black Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver -- a complex man who inspired profound adulation . . . MORE >

*Mirror to America* *Intimate, at times revelatory, Mirror to America* chronicles a remarkable life and this nation's racial transformation in the 20th century, and is a powerful reminder of . . . MORE >**

*The Games Black Girls Play* When we think of African American popular music, our first thought is probably not of double-dutch: girls bouncing between two twirling ropes, keeping time to . . . MORE >

*Cinnamon Kiss* Bestselling author Walter Mosley's sizzling new novel pits Easy Rawlins against his greatest challenge ever -- a terrifying murder during 1967’s Summer of Love . . . MORE >

*I'm Every Woman* Black women have been balancing the competing demands of work and home since before women even won the right to vote. But Black voices and experiences . . . MORE >

*Voodoo Season* Jewell Parker Rhodes's fourth novel, revisits the mystical landscape of Louisiana, but now, for the first time, the celebrated author of historical fiction presents . . . MORE >

*The Color of Law* Easily compared to actual news stories, this novel probes the murder of a Texas presidential candidate's son by a Black prostitute after a night of liquor and sex . . . MORE >

*Joplin's Ghost* Tananarive Due’s latest novel is a chilling tale of a star-in-the-making whose life goes haywire as she is haunted by the ghost of a long-dead famous music legend . . . MORE >

*Nowhere Is a Place* Bernice L. McFadden crafts a touching novel about a young woman uncovering her surprising family history. Like many family histories, it reluctantly reveals secrets . . . MORE >

*Almost Doesn't Count* *Electa Rome Parks, the author of Loose Ends, returns with a novel about a woman who is almost convinced that love doesn't matter -- her mother made sure of that . . . MORE >*

*How to Rent a Negro - The Interview* BOOKSandWORDS interviews conceptual artist and author damali ayo on her insightful and hysterically funny first handbook about getting paid for living Black . . . MORE >

*Hokum* *Selected and introduced by acclaimed novelist and poet Paul Beatty, Hokum* is a liberating, eccentric, savagely comic collection of the funniest writing by . . . MORE >**

*From Black Power to Hip Hop* Despite legislation designed to eliminate unfair racial practices, the United States continues to struggle with a race problem. Some thinkers label this a . . . MORE >

*A Farewell to Justice* This is not just another book about the assassination of President Kennedy. Line for line and between the lines this is a detailed account of an American coup . . . MORE >



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	Too Much Less For 'Millions More'


	Though substantially attended, a decade later, the Millions More Movement event was effectively a bust. Functionally and numerically, this 10th anniversary gathering was actually thousands less. But, this is NOT about numbers . . . MORE >


	BOOKSandWORDS EXCLUSIVE: *Federal judge ends all arguments in the Sophia Stewart vs Warner Brothers multibillion-dollar Matrix* movie copyright lawsuit, and may soon rule on this quiet 6-year case . . . MORE >**