{"id":54,"date":"2010-02-03T20:11:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T20:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2010\/02\/good-reads-black-history-month.html"},"modified":"2010-02-03T20:11:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T20:11:39","slug":"good-reads-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2010\/02\/good-reads-black-history-month.html","title":{"rendered":"Good Reads for Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked to post a list of good books to read during Black History Month. &#160;Here&#039;s my top ten in no particular order&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Testament-Hope-Essential-Writings-Speeches\/dp\/0060646918\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265251910&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">A Testament of Hope: &#160;The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr, Compiled by James M. Washington<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Martin-Malcolm-America-Dream-Nightmare\/dp\/0883448246\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265252071&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Malcolm &amp; Martin &amp; America: &#160;A Dream or a Nightmare; by James Cone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Free-Last-Gospel-African-American-Experience\/dp\/0830816879\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265252184&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Free-Last-Gospel-African-American-Experience\/dp\/0830816879\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265252184&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Free At Last? &#160;The Gospel in the African-American Experience; by Carl Ellis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Invisible-Man-Ralph-Ellison\/dp\/0679732764\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265252290&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Black-Profiles-Courage-African-American-Achievement\/dp\/0380813416\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265252457&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Black Profiles in Courage: &#160;A Legacy of African-American Achievement by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sound-Freedom-Anderson-Memorial-Awakened\/dp\/1608190560\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265252548&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Sound of Freedom: &#160;Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert that Awakened America by Raymond Arsenault<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Giants-Parallel-Frederick-Douglass-Abraham\/dp\/0446698989\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265252619&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Giants: &#160;The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trials-Phillis-Wheatley-Americas-Encounters\/dp\/0465027296\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265252691&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: &#160;America&#039;s First Black Poet and Encounters with the Founding Fathers by Henry Louis Gates Jr.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Collected-Poems-Langston-Hughes\/dp\/0679764089\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265252841&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Edited by Arnold Rampersad<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Finding-Groove-Composing-Jazz-Shaped-Faith\/dp\/0310282527\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265252989&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Finding the Groove: &#160;Composing a Jazz-Shaped Faith by Robert Gelinas<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you suggest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked to post a list of good books to read during Black History Month. &#160;Here&#039;s my top ten in no particular order&#8230; A Testament of Hope: &#160;The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr, Compiled by James M. Washington Malcolm &amp; Martin &amp; America: &#160;A Dream or a Nightmare; by James&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Good Reads for Black History Month - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2010\/02\/good-reads-black-history-month.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Good Reads for Black History Month - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I was asked to post a list of good books to read during Black History Month. &#160;Here&#039;s my top ten in no particular order&#8230; A Testament of Hope: &#160;The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr, Compiled by James M. 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