From Nikki Giovanni and Eric Jerome Dickey to Isabel Wilkerson and Randal Pinkett, we reached out to some of our favorite authors and asked them to share the books that touched them in 2010.
Giovanni writes an unparalleled jazzy review of Jay-Z’s ‘Decoded,’ while Wilkerson delivers a moving review of one doctor’s exploration of cancer. Superpublicist Patti Webster stayed true to religious form with her pick about two clergymen from different faiths. Pinkett tackles Tom Burrell’s forward-thinking book about how racism in the African American community is not really a problem but rather a response. And street-lit diva Nikki Turner offered up a title about personal finances that will definitely stand the rest of time.
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