FILM! I'm really into theater and dance so I always catch Alvin Ailey or Dance Theater of Harlem, or Philadanco, or ABT when they are touring. I absolutely love hip hop, so I enjoy going to spots that play hip hop music (preferably live bands, independent artist) The Corny stuff I like to do...walking in the park, driving around looking at big houses...("that's my house", we used to play that when we were little)...
Conscious People Committed to Changing the World, Starting with Themselves!
Donnie Hathaway, PRINCE, Nina Simone, Ms. Hill, Mos Def, Billie Holiday, India.Arie, Erykah Badu, Fertile Ground (Don't sleep!), Jill Scott, The Roots, New Edition(oh yes, oh yes, NE Heartbreak!), Talib, I love old school hip hop (Brand Nubian, Black Moon, KRS-ONE, Tribe Called Quest, etc.)
In no particular order... The Five Heartbeats, Purple Rain, Color Purple, Malcolm X, The Usual Suspects, Lady Sings the Blues, A Beautiful Mind, Shawshank Redemption, The Matrix, Rize, One Week.
24! (Keifer Sutherland is the man!). ANTM, Dexter
Sisters of the Yam (Black Women and Self Recover) by Bell Hooks. A MUST READ for ALL black women! So, brothers, the next time your girlfriend or wife quirks out and slashes your tires or puts sugar in your gas tank, please, buy her this book! LOL Other favorites.. The Unseen Hand, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Sacred Woman / Heal Thyself by Queen Afua (Must haves for sisters), The Davinci Code,
My grandmother! Assata Shakur.