By Omar Black

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September 2005

RECOMMENDED VIEWINGS
1) The Butterfly Effect/ Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber
2) The Jacket/ John Maybury
3) Just Cause/ Arne Glimcher
4) The Color Purple/ Steven Spielberg
5) Star Trek: The Collector’s Edition/ Gene
Roddenberry
6) The Rosa Parks Story/ Julie Dash
7) Monsieur Ibrahim/ Francois Dupeyron
8) Phenomenon/ Jon Turtletaub
9) The Man Who Knew Too Much/ Alfred Hitchcock
10) Blue Hill Avenue/ Craig Ross Jr.

RECOMMENDED LISTENINGS
1) Waterfall/ Kim Waters
2) Morning, Noon and Night/ Bob James
3) Destiny Fulfilled/ Destiny’s Child
4) Pleasures of the Night/ Will Downing & Gerald
Albright
5) Poinciana/ Ahmad Jamal
6) The Gospel According to Jazz/ Kirk Whalum
7) From Folsom to Forgiven/ Tim Kepler
8) Nina Simone Anthology/ Nina Simone
9) Monica Mancini/ Monica Mancini
10) Jeepers Creepers/ Louis Armstrong

RECOMMENDED READINGS
1) Trends: How to Prepare for and Profit from the
Changes of the 21st / Gerald Clemente
2) What Will Be/ Michael Dertouzos
3) Next: Trends for the Near Future/ Ira Matathia &
Marian Salzman
4) Without Sanctuary: Lynching in America/ Hilton Als
5) When Justice Calls/ Dora Muhammad
6) God’s Politics/ Jim Wallis
7) Collapse/ Jared Diamond
8) How to Win Friends and Influence People/ Dale
Carnegie
9) America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course/ Richard
Haas
10) Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational
Corporations/ Richard J. Barnet & Ronald Muller

July 2005

RECOMMENDED VIEWINGS

1) War of the Worlds/ Steven Spielberg
2) Crash/ Paul Haggis
3) National Treasure/ Jon Turtletaub
4) Something the Lord Made/ Joseph Sargent
5) The Aviator/ Martin Scorcese
6) Coach Carter/ Thomas Carter
7) In the Time of the Butterflies/ Mariano Barroso
8) The Passion of the Christ/ Mel Gibson
9) Devil’s Advocate/ Taylor Hackford
10) Sometimes in April/ Raoul Peck

RECOMMENDED LISTENINGS

1) Dance with My Father/ Luther Vandross
2) HiStory: Past, Present, Future (Book I)/ Michael Jackson
3) At Last/ Gladys Knight
4) Enter My Mind/ Marlon Saunders
5) Peace of Mind/ Carmen Cuesta
6) Songs of Freedom/ Bob Marley
7) Embrya/ Maxwell
8) The Mood of Midnight/ Gary Taylor
9) World Wide Underground/ Erykah Badu
10) Be/ Common

RECOMMENDED READINGS

1) Harlem Renaissance/ Kelly King Howes & Christine Slovey
2) Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance/ P. Stephen Hardy & Sheila Jackson Hardy
3) Marcus Garvey: Life and Lessons/ Robert A. Hill & Barbara Bair
4) The Souls of Black Folk/ W.E.B. Dubois
5) Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story/ Kurt Eichenwald
6) Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection/ John Man
7) Emperor of the Blue Ants/ George Paloczi-Horvath
8) Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy/ Carl Shapiro & Hal R. Varian
9) In Search of Excellence/ Tom Peters & Robert H. Waterman
10) Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies/ Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras

RECOMMENDED VIEWINGS
 
1) Hotel Rwanda/ Terry George
2) The Motorcycle Diaries/ Walter Salles
3) Cooley High/ Michael Schultz
4) The Tiger Woods Story/ LeVar Burton
5) Second Hand Lions/ Tim McCanlies
6) Heaven Can Wait/ Warren Beatty & Buck Henry
7) Independence Day/ Roland Emmerich
8) The 13th Warrior/ John McTiernan
9) Buena Vista Social Club/ Wim Wender
10) The Usual Suspects/ Bryan Singer
 
RECOMMENDED LISTENINGS
 
1) Night Sessions/ Chris Botti
2) Buena Vista Social Club/ Buena Vista Social Club
3) Best of Hiroshima/ Hiroshima
4) Spirit and Soul/ June Kuramoto
5) Violin for Relaxation/ Johann Sebastian Bach, Claude Debussy, Edward Elgar
6) Wanting/ Gabriela Anders
7) Emotions/ Will Downing
8) What’s Going On/ Marvin Gaye
9) Innervisions/ Stevie Wonder
10) Greatest Hits/ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
 
RECOMMENDED READINGS
 
1) The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less/ Barry Schwartz
2) The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know About America’s Future/
     Laurence Kotlikoff & Scott Burns
3) Blacks in Business/ Ellis Cose
4) Black Power, Inc.: The New Voice of Success/ Cora Daniels
5) Reallionaire: Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out/ Farrah Gray
6) Ready for Revolution/ Stokely Carmichael
7) The Millionaire Next Door/ Thomas J. Stanley & William Danko
8) Phenomenal Woman/ Maya Angelou
9) The Debt/ Randall Robinson
10) Journey to Justice / Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr.

RECOMMENDED VIEWINGS
 
1) Collateral/ Michael Mann
2) Doctor Zhivago/ David Lean
3) Primal Fear/ Gregory Hoblit
4) Cocoon/ Ron Howard
5) The Apostle/ Robert Duvall
6) Exodus/ Otto Preminger
7) Mr. Destiny/ James Orr
8) Grand Canyon/ Lawrence Kasden
9) Fahrenheit 911/ Michael Moore
10) Hawaii/ George Roy Hill
 
RECOMMENDED LISTENINGS
 
1) Everlasting Love/ Vanessa Williams
2) Get Lifted/ John Legend
3) Confessions/ Usher
4) The Guide/ Youssou N’Dour
5) Songs From the Front Porch/ Michael Franti
6) Collection, 2001/ Tracy Chapman
7) Closer to Far Away/ Douglas Spotted Eagle
8) Inner Voices/ R. Carlos Nakai
9) Love Makes the Changes/ Freddy Cole
10) Fear of a Black Planet/ Public Enemy
 
RECOMMENDED READINGS
 
1) Donald Trump: How to Get Rich/ Donald Trump with Meredith McIver
2) The Power of Positive Thinking/ Norman Vincent Peale
3) Black O Knowledge/ James Clingman, Jr.
4) Battle for the Mind/ William Sargant
5) Success Runs in Our Race/ George Fraser
6) The Roaring 2000s/ Harry S. Dent, Jr.
7) Another Dimension of the Black Diaspora/ Kenneth Kiple & Virginia King
8) Stupid White Men/ Michael Moore   
9) The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me about Life and Wealth/
Richard Paul Evans
10) Major Taylor: The Extraordinary Career of a Champion Bicycle Racer/
Andrew Ritchie

RECOMMENDED VIEWINGS

1) Disappearing Acts/ Gina Prince-Bythewood
2) Frida/ Julie Taymor
3) A Beautiful Mind/ Ron Howard
4) Shall We Dance?(1997)/ Masayuki Suo
5) Rabbit Proof Fence/ Phillip Noyce
6) Standing in the Shadows of Motown/ Paul Justman
7) Glengarry GlenRoss/ James Foley
8) Startup.com/ Chris Hegedus & Jehane Noujaim
9) Boiler Room/ Ben Younger
10) Redwood Curtain/ John Korty

RECOMMENDED LISTENINGS

1) The Dana Owens Album/ Queen Latifah
2) Lazy Afternoon/ Regina Belle
3) Outrun the Sky/ Lalah Hathaway
4) Believe/ Yolanda Adams
5) Angels Watching Over Me/ Denyce Graves
6) Forever, For Always, For Luther/ Various Artists
7) Covenant/ Joanne Shenandoah
8) Return of the Guardians/ David Arkenstone
9) The Devil Made Me Do It/ Paris
10) Street Disciple/ Nas

RECOMMENDED READINGS

1) The Self-Publishing Manual/ Dan Poynter
2) Black Enterprise Magazine/ Earl Graves
3) The Final Call/ Minister Louis Farrakhan
4) Yesterday I Cried/ Iyanla Vansant
5) Never Satisfied/ Hillel Schwartz
6) Fast Food Nation: the dark side of the all-American meal/ Eric Schlosser
7) Sweetness and Power/ Sidney Mintz
8) House of Rothschild: The World’s Banker 1849-1998/ Niall Ferguson
9) Whiteout/ Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St.Clair
10) The Art of War/ Sun Tzu

NOVEMBER 20, 2004

RECOMMENDED VIEWINGS
 
1) Ray/ Taylor Hackford
2) The Corporation/ Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan
3) The Tailor of Panama/ John Boorman
4) The Hurricane/ Norman Jewison
5) Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing/ Henry King
6) Heat/ Michael Mann
7) An Officer and a Gentleman/ Taylor Hackford
8) Cry Freedom/ Richard Attenborough
9) Gothika/ Mathieu Kassovitz
10) Solaris/ Andrei Tarkovsky
 
RECOMMENDED LISTENINGS
 
1)  R.S.V.P./ Nancy Wilson
2) Secrets/ Eloise Laws
3) Book of Life/ Rakim
4) Union/ Toni Childs
5) Accentuate the Positive/ Al Jarreau
6) Shades of Cuba/ Cuba
7) The Pure Brazil Series/ Brazil
8) Last Tango in Rio/ Gabriela Anders
9)) ‘Round Midnight/ Thelonius Monk
10) Greatest Love Songs/ Isaac Hayes
 
RECOMMENDED READINGS
 
1) There’s No Business Like Your Own Business/ Gladys Edmunds
2) Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni/ Nikki Giovanni
3) Born To Win/ Frances Clayton Gray and Yanick Rue Lamb
4) Leave No Child Behind/ Dr. James P. Comer
5) In Tears For Water: Songbook of Poems and Lyrics/ Alicia Keys
6) Standing in the Shadows: Understanding and Overcoming Depression in
    Black Men/ John Head
7) In the Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life’s Journey/ Muhammad Ali
    and Hana Ali
8) In To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters From the Road/ Wynton Marsalis
    with Sifu Hinds
9) They Call Me Big House/ Clarence E. Gaines with Clint Johnson
10) Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don’t Follow the News/ David Mindich
 

October 13, 2004

RECOMMENDED VIEWINGS

1) Boca/ Zalman King
2) John Q/ Nick Cassavetes
3) Get On The Bus/ Spike Lee
4) Ali/ Michael Mann
5) Summer’s End/ Helen Shaver
6) 2001: A Space Odyssey/ Stanley Kubrick
7) Man On Fire/ Tony Scott
8) Mo’ Better Blues/ Spike Lee
9) Lumumba/ Raoul Peck
10) Altered States/ Ken Russell

RECOMMENDED LISTENINGS

1) My Everything/ Anita Baker
2) Between the Sun and the Moon/ Brenda Russell
3) Beyond/ Joshua Redman
4) Eternal/ Branford Marsalis
5) Conversation Peace/ Stevie Wonder
6) New World Order/ Curtis Mayfield
7) It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back/ Public Enemy
8) Live In Detroit II/ Vickie Winans
9) The Power of Love: A Ballads Collection/ Stephanie Mills
10) The Essential Andreas Vollenweider/ Andreas Vollenweider

RECOMMENDED READINGS

1) Oil, Power, and Empire/ Larry Everest
2) Women, Race, and Class/ Angela Y. Davis
3) Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism/ Cornel West
4) The Second Sex / Simone de Beauvoir
5) How To Eat To Live/ The Hon. Elijah Muhammad
6) Corporate Predators: The Hunt for Mega Profits and the Attack On
Democracy/ Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
7) A Dream Deferred/ Shelby Steele
8) Black Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire/ Carole
Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines
9) Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary/ Jasmine Guy
10) Why I Love Black Women/ Michael Eric Dyson

September 09, 2004

RECOMMENDED VIEWINGS

1) The Manchurian Candidate/ Jonathan Demme
2) Network/ Sidney Lumet
3) Shaka Zula/ William C. Faure
4) Lawrence Of Arabia/ David Lean
5) House Of Sand And Fog/ Vadim Perelman
6) Do The Right Thing/ Spike Lee
7) Brazil/ Terry Gilliam
8) Purple Rain/ Prince
9) Apocalypse Now/ Francis Ford Coppola
10) Close Encounters of The Third Kind/ Steven
Spielberg

RECOMMENDED LISTENINGS

1) Beautifully Human: Words And Sounds Vol. 2/ Jill Scott
2) Acoustic Soul/ India.Arie
3) Bravebird/ Amel Larrieux
4) Mahogany Soul/ Angie Stone
5) Kind Of Blue/ Miles Davis
6) My Favorite Things/ John Coltrane
7) The Private Music Of Suzanne Ciani/ Suzanne Ciani
8) Eclectic Bohemian/ Gary Taylor
9) College Dropout/ Kanye West
10) The Payback/ James Brown

RECOMMENDED READINGS

1) The First Book Of Jazz/ Langston Hughes & Cliff Roberts
2) A Torchlight For America/ Minister Louis Farrakhan
3) Hegemony Or Survival/ Noam Chomsky
4) Think And Grow Rich/ Napoleon Hill & Dennis Kimbro
5) Street Wars/ Tom Hayden
6) What Next: An African American Initiative Toward World Peace/ Walter Moseley
7) Against All Odds: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Followed Their Hearts And Found Success/Wendy Beech Harris
8) White Nationalism, Black Interests: Conservative Public Policy And The Black Community/ Ronald Walters
9) How To Succeed In Business Without Being White: Straight Talk On Making It In America/ Earl G. Graves
10) Why Should White Guys Have All The Fun?: How Reginald Lewis Created A Billion Dollar Business
Enterprise/ Reginald Lewis & Blair Walker

July 18, 2004

RECOMMENDED VIEWINGS

1) The Godfather/ Francis Ford Coppola
2) Bowling For Columbine/ Michael Moore
3) Antoine Fisher/ Denzel Washington
4) Malcolm X/ Spike Lee
5) The Last Emperor/ Jeremy Irons
6) Somewhere In Time/ Jeannot Szwarc
7) Scarface/ Martin Scorcese
8) The Shawshank Redemption/ Frank Darabont
9) Wall Street/ Oliver Stone
10) Enemy Of The State/ Tony Scott

RECOMMENDED LISTENINGS

1) Legend/ Bob Marley and the Wailers
2) Greatest Hits/ Earth, Wind & Fire
3) Best of Sting/ Sting
4) Land of Forever/ 2002
5) New Beginning/ Tracy Chapman
6) The Diary of Alicia Keys/ Alicia Keys
7) Lovers Rock/ Sade
8) Number Ones/ Michael Jackson
9) Musicology/ Prince
10) A Love Supreme/ John Coltrane

RECOMMENDED READINGS

1) World On Fire/ Amy Chua
2) Rich Dad Poor Dad/ Robert Kiyosaki
3) Message To The Blackman/ Honorable Elijah Muhammad
4) Bias/ Bernard Goldberg
5) Future Shock/ Alvin Toffler
5) Paul Robeson Speaks/ Philip Foner
6) God’s Leading Lady/ Bishop T. D. Jakes
7) The Autobiography of Malcolm X/ Alex Haley
8) Should America Pay?/ Dr. Raymond A. Winbush
9) The Story of My Experience With Truth/ Mohandas Gandhi
10) Post-Soul Nation/ Nelson George