The following is a list of authors and their books that have come into my life and changed me one page at a time, especially in the last 2 years after arriving in New Orleans living 4 blocks from the Community Book Center (2523 Bayou Road, 70119) with Momma Jenn feeding this hungry thirsty chick one book at a time to nurture gradually, with love, into ever-greater awareness. The list is written somewhat in chronological order. Thank you Jennifer Turner, Vera Williams, Ray Bailey, Jayna Brown, Freddy Ramos, James and Ruby Green, and especially to all the writers. 

Mildred Taylor                     "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry" and "Let the Circle Be Unbroken"  "the Road to Memphis"        
David Cappello                   "The People's Grocer; John G. Schwegmann, New Orleans, the Making of the Modern Retail World"        
Kenneth M. Stampp         "The Peculiar Institution"          
Chiek Anta Diop                 "Civilization and Barbarism"           
Ram Un Nefer Amen       "Ma'at"          
Edward Baptist                  "The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism"         
Cotton and Cane Slaves         "Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton and Cane Plantations" edited by Lynette Ater Tanner            
Alabama's Slaves               "Slave Narratives: Alabama" from the Federal Writers' Project
Camara Laye                        "The Radiance of the King"   
Howard Thurman             "Jesus and the Disinherited"          
James Cone                           "The Cross and the Lynching Tree" and "A Black Theology of Liberation"       
Frederick Douglas             "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas"          
Toni Morrison                     "The Bluest Eye"
Dr. Joyce Degruy                "Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome"          
Yaa Gyasi                                "Homegoing"           
Zora Neale Hurston        "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and "Barracoon"           
Kalamu ya Salaam            "Be About Beauty"         
Delores S. Williams          "Sisters in the Wilderness"       
Chinua Achebe                    "When Things Fall Apart"          
Mary Washington             "Sojourner Truth's America" 
Black Female Writers     "Midnight Birds and Black Eyed Susans"  edited by Mary Washington
Negro Writers                      "The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers"  edited by Langston Hughes
Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal (Editors)   "Black Fire"
C. Dier                                       "The 1968 St. Bernard Massacre"
Martin Luther King           "A Call to Conscience"
Christopher Emdin           "For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood"      
Nikki Giovanni                     "The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni 1968-1998"
Colson Whitehead            "The Underground Railroad"           
Walter Brueggemann       "Silence"         
Leo Tolstoy                               "Walk in the Light"
Doris Kearns Goodwin     "Leadership"  
Valentine Price                     "Up Decatur (Poems)"
Yosef A. A. Ben-Jochannan   "Our Black Seminarians and Black Clergy without a Black Theology"
​James Baldwin                       "Go Tell it on the Mountain"     
Madeleine Albright            "Fascism"      
Toni Morrison                        "The Source of Self-Regard"
Ari Berman                             "Give Us the Ballot"  
Helene Cooper                     "Madame President"
Richard Rohr                         "The Universal Christ"
Toni Morrison                         (In order) "Sula," "Song of Solomon," "Tar Baby," "Beloved" "Paradise" 
Sara Bloom                             "The Yellow House"
David Billings                        "Deep Denial"
Steven Greenhouse           "Beaten Down, Worked Up"
Andrew Yang                         "The War Against Normal People"
Ta Nehisi Coates                  "The Water Dancer"
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor "Race for Profit"
Ray Hinton                               "The Sun Does Shine"
Maya Angelou                       "Letters to My Daughter"
Ralph Ellison                          "The Invisible Man"
Maurice Carlos Ruffin      "We Cast a Shadow"
Fred Rogers                            "The World According to Mr. Rogers"
Fanie E. Davis                            "The Little Book of Racial and Restorative Justice"
Nell Irvin Painter               "The History of White People"
Daniel Denvir                       "All American Nativism"
Kaba Hiawatha Kamene "Spirituality Before Religion"
Nina Jablonski                      "Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color"
Michael Tellinger                "African Temples of the Annunaki"
Muata Ashby                        "Introduction to Maat Philosophy"
Sydney Poitier                     "The Measure of a Man"
Ivan Van Sertima               "They Came Before Columbus"
Alistair Moffat                    "Scotland: A History from Earliest Times"
Jack Weatherford            "Native Roots"
Daniel Estulin                      "The Tavistock Institute"
A.R. Luria                               "The Man with a Shattered World"
Rachel Maddow                "Blowout"
Isabel Wilkerson               "The Warmth of Other Suns"
Julia Cameron                     "The Artists Way"
Jean-Yves Leloup               "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene"
Meggan Waterson            "Mary Magdalene Revealed"
Bryan Stevenson               "Just Mercy"
Matthew Desmond         "Evicted"
Professor Kaba Hiawatha Kamee     "Spirituality Before Religions"
Jayna Brown                         "Babylon Girls"

Note: Haven't read the last four yet!