I was asked to post a list of good books to read during Black History Month.  Here's my top ten in no particular order…

• A Testament of Hope:  The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr, Compiled by James M. Washington
• Malcolm & Martin & America:  A Dream or a Nightmare; by James Cone
• Free At Last?  The Gospel in the African-American Experience; by Carl Ellis
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Black Profiles in Courage:  A Legacy of African-American Achievement by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• The Sound of Freedom:  Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert that Awakened America by Raymond Arsenault
• Giants:  The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln
• The Trials of Phillis Wheatley:  America's First Black Poet and Encounters with the Founding Fathers by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Edited by Arnold Rampersad
• Finding the Groove:  Composing a Jazz-Shaped Faith by Robert Gelinas 🙂

What do you suggest?