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*BAD
AS I WANNA BE
Dennis Rodman with Tim Keown
"I’ve been homeless, I’ve worked at
7-Eleven, I’m a real person, with real
experience, not some image that somebody in the NBA
office created."
BLUES
ALL AROUND ME: The Autobiography of B.B. King
B.B. King with David Ritz
Also a musical history &endash; the evolution of
the blues from country acoustic to urban
electric.
BONE
BLACK: Memories of Girlhood
bell hooks
Coming of age in the 1950s in "…a rich
magical world of southern black culture that was
sometimes paradisiacal and at other times
terrifying.
THE
COLOR OF WATER: A Black Man’s Tribute to His
White Mother
James McBride
Two stories: a mother overcomes her painful,
long-buried past and a son comes to terms with his
Jewish roots.
COMPOSITION
IN BLACK AND WHITE: The Life of Philippa
Schuyler
Kathryn Talalay
This musical prodigy never accepted her biracial
identity and blamed it for limiting her
career.
DIGNITY
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
His three years in exile.
DON’T
BLOCK THE BLESSINGS: Revelations of a Lifetime
Patti LaBelle
Personal losses and fears have propelled her to
live life to the fullest.
AN
EASY BURDEN: The Civil Rights Movement and the
Transformation of America.
Andrew Young
His life up to his election to Congressin
1972.
GO
AND TELL PHARAOH: The Autobiography of the Reverend
Al Sharpton
The Reverend Al Sharpton and Anthony
Walton
"…from pulpt to prodigy to street activist to
statesman."
*GOOD
GIRL, BAD GIRL: An Insider’s Biography of
Whitney Houston
Kevin Ammons with Nancy Bacon
An expose: why she married Bobby, why she hates
Kevin Costner, Oprah, and Madonna and much
more.
HIDING
MY CANDY: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of
Savannah
The Lady Chablis with Theodore
Bouloukos
Contains pictures, "down home" recipes, and tips
for transvestite beauty and fashion.
JACKIE
ROBINSON: An Intimate Portrait
Rachel Robinson with Lee
Daniels
A tribute by his widow, including never before
published family photographs.
JESSE:
The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson
Marshall Frady
To his detractors, a man of enormous ego and
insatiable appetites. To his admirers, one of the
great moral leaders of our time &endash; a study
that reconciles both views.
*JOYCELYN
ELDERS, M.D.: From Sharecropper’s Daughter to
Surgeon General of the United States of America
M. Joycelyn Elders with David
Chanoff
Her professional and private tragedies and
triumphs.
LONG
TIME GONE: A Black Panther’s True-Life Story
of His Hijacking and Twenty-Five Years in
Cuba
William Lee Brent
To escape prosecution, he hijacked an airliner and
never returned.
LUSH
LIFE: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
David Hajdu
Not only the difficult life of Duke
Ellington’s collaborator but also a history of
New York’s black and gay artists in the 1930s,
1940s and 1950s.
*MAMA’S
GIRL
Veronica Chambers
Though she grew up amid abuse and rejection, a
young woman reconciles with her cold and
indifferent mother.
MISS
RHYTHM: The Autobiography of Ruth Brown, Rhythm and
Blues Legend
Ruth Brown with Andrew Yule
"This is the lady…who started it all.
Wasn’t for Ruth Brown, there wouldn’t be
no Aretha, wouldn’t be nobody." &endash;
Stevie Wonder
MOUNTAIN
GET OUT OF MY WAY: Life Lessons and Learned
Truths
Montel Williams with Daniel
Paisner
Inspirational, no nonsense guidelines for achieving
success.
NO
FREE RIDE: From the Mean Streets to the
Mainstream
Kweisi Mfume with Ron Stodghill
II
A hustler and a fighter &endash; first as a young
man in Baltimore, then as the Chairman of the
Congressional Black Caucus and now as the CEO of
the NAACP.
PROPHET
OF RAGE: A Life of Louis Farrakhan and His
Nation
Arthur J. Magida
By the editorial director of Jewish Lights
Publishing
REPOSSESSING
ERNESTINE: A Granddaughter Uncovers the Secret
History of Her American Family
Marsha Hunt
Was Ernestine committed to a mental institution
by her husband and ignored by her family for 52
years because she was too dark?
SAMMY
DAVIS JR., My Father
Tracey Davis with Dolores A.
Barclay
He missed her birthday parties, was late for her
high school graduation and didn’t show up at
all for her college graduation &endash; but he did
send cash.
*SOARING
ABOVE SETBACKS: The Autobiography of Janet Harmon
Bragg, African-American Aviator
Janet Harmon Bragg as told to
Marjorie M. Kriz
The first African-American female commercial
pilot.
WE
FLEW OVER THE BRIDGE: The Memoirs of Faith
Ringgold
Faith Ringgold
The preeminent artist and award-winning
children’s book author. Illustrated with black
and white photographs and full color
plates.
*Recommended
for Teens
This
selected list was compiled by: Moonyean Carlton,
General Library, Adult Reader and Information
Services; Marylou Coveney, Dudley Branch;
Jacquelyn Hogan, Grove Hall/Egleston Square Branch
Libraries; Sarah markell, Codman Square Branch; Marilyn Poindexter, Chairperson, General
Library, Teen Services. Boston Public
Library, 1997.
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