Liberation List of Books, Movies, Etc. by Kyle Phoenix

My students encouraged me to post the below list of books, DVDs, etc. (I will faithfully update it every week) that we use in classes as our master bibliography list and have coined the "Liberation List".  By liberation I mean that it is specifically designed for you to create your own curriculum around history, business, culture, race, sexuality, etc. from it to free yourself and others from thinking that does not serve.  I generally give out the entire list---about 2000 items now to every class because I feel that it's not simply important but necessary that we (by "we" I mean socially concerned, liberated, radical folk) start constructing or adding to our personal libraries.  

In constructing it into a digital list (I'll also include it within all of my digital books) I've attached hyperlinks to the best sales on Amazon.com that include free shipping and such.  Wonderfully enough a lot of these books are from small business people, mainly of color I expect, so it's a full circle sharing/community empowerment cycle.  If you have any you'd like to contribute, email them to me at KylePhoenixShow@gmail.com and we'll add it to the list.  Hopefully the totality of the list will be complete from my personal library/list within a few months of this first posting but I further hope that it's never completed as a community project.  Feel free to forward on the page, web-link to this page or cut and paste the table to give to/email to others.  We tried to make this as simple a table as possible to transfer.

Shakur. A.	Assata: An Autobiography
Shakur, Tupac	The Rose that Grew from Concrete (Hardback)
Shakur, Tupac	Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996
Joseph, J.	Tupac Shakur Legacy (Hardback)
Tupac Shakur	Tupac Shakur Pictorial
Machiavelli	The Prince
Greene, R	The 48 Laws of Power
Greene, R	The Art of Seduction
Greene, R	The 33 Strategies of War (Joost Elffers Books) (Hardback)
Tzu, Sun	The Art of War
Marx, K.	The Communist Manifesto
Anderson, J	Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
Cooper	Behold a Pale Horse
Dosal, P.	Commandante Che Guevara
Epperson	New World Order
Mao Tse Tung	The Little Red Book
Jabbar	The Biggest Lie Ever Told 4th Edition
Rogers, J.A.	100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro
Rogers, J.A.	The Real Facts About Ethiopia
Muhammad	Message to the Blackman in America
Lewis	The Ancient Mysteries of Melchizedek
Levi	The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ: The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of the Church Universal
Al-Amin	TRUE MYTH: BLACK VIKINGS OF THEMIDDLE AGES
Webster	The Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Roget's	Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition (21st Century Reference)
Raishekar	Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India
Cottrell	Hannibal: Enemy Of Rome
Dyson, M.	Holler If You Hear Me (2006)
Thelwell, M.	The Harder They Come
Kambon, K.	The Last Book Part 1
Urantia Foundation	The Urantia Book: Revealing the Mysteries of God, the Universe, World History, Jesus, and Ourselves
Madhubuti	Black Men, Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?: The Afrikan American Family in Transition
Blake, D.	Shower Posse: The Most Notorious Jamaican Crime Organisation (Hardback)
Nightjohn	The HipHop Driven Life
Griffin, S.	Black Brothers, Inc. : The Violent Rise and Fall of Philadelphia's Black Mafia
Chepesiuk, R.	Drug Lords: The Rise and Fall of the Cali Cartel
Poppa, T.	Drug Lord: A True Story: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin
Peers, C.	Warrior Peoples of East Africa 1840-1900 (Men-at-Arms)
Souljah, Sister	The Coldest Winter Ever
C.B.IA	The American Directory Of Certified: Uncle Toms
Pen Black	GODS, EARTHS and 85ers
Fox,M.	The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global Renaissance
J. Polich	Return of the Children of Light: Incan and Mayan Prophecies for a New World
Miller/Taube	An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya
Bames, N.	Mr. Untouchable (Hardback)
Perkins, J.	Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Potash, J.	The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders: U.S. Intelligence's Murderous Targeting of Tupac, MLK, Malcolm, Panthers, Hendrix, Marley, Rappers and Linked Ethnic Leftists
Atem S.	The Book of Knowing The Manifestations of Ra Again
Simmons, R.	Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success (Hardback)
Apidta, T.	The Hidden History of Washington, DC
Ken,P.	Pimpology: The 48 Laws of the Game (Hardback)
Greenlee, S.	The Spook Who Sat by the Door (African American Life Series)
Wiser, R.	MACK Tactics: The Science of Seduction Meets the Art of Hostage Negotiation
Ashbv,M.	Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Beginners: Medtu Neter- "Divine Words"
The RZA	The Wu-Tang Manual
Pimp,M.	Church Pimps
Johnson, I.	Drug Dealer, Parts 1&2 (Collector's Edition) (Drug Dealer the Collector's Edition)
Woods	Blood of My Brother
Smiley, T.	The Covenant with Black America
Lynch, W.	The Willie Lynch Letter And the Making of A SlaveThe Willie Lynch Letter And the Making of A Slave
Akil	From Niggas to Gods, Part One

SCANDAL-ous Scenario # 8- Get A Second Job For More Loving? by Kyle Phoenix

Your partner makes $50,000 more than you. He wants you two to be 50/50. He's found you a 2nd part time job at his company that will pay you close to 50k more but you have to keep your current job. He thinks it's best, if you continue to make so much less he thinks it might be a dealbreaker---he doesn't want to be "taken advantage of"---do you work the 2nd job?



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1 Minute Tips in Etiquette: Going Out/FIne DIning

Why practice etiquette?  Two reasons: one impeccable manners are not only to allow you to easily move through many settings (job interview can now involve (your boss, professional associations, etc.) taking you and the department out---I was once part of a work team and upon my insistence for meeting achievement goals was that the VP would take us to a nice lunch at Morton's Steakhouse here in NYC.  Scarily enough, men and women older than me would corner me beforehand and ask questions about what to do and not do.  Watch the most experienced person at the table and mirror them and never ever have alcoholic beverages with your co-workers.  Someone, sometimes your drunken boss, is watching how you operate in the world.); nothing is a bigger turn off on a date than your company eating with their mouth full, treating the maitre'd, the host, the waiters, the servers badly, not knowing what glass to use, what fork, etc..  And secondly, your level of manners is not to only make you fit in, it's to make others feel comfortable.  I corrected a student that class is not acting a certain way, it's having such impeccable manners that if someone makes an error, you don't treat them any differently.  You notice it, but you don't castigate them.

One of the delights of life is going out to dinner by yourself, on a date, with family, with friends.  What isn't pleasant is going out with someone who doesn't understand how to operate at a dinner table. I try to take each one of my students, particularly the males, to a fine dining experience on their birthdays so that I can gently but firmly see and correct any gaps they might have in proper table etiquette.  Here's an image of what a full, 4 to 8 course, dinner setting would look like on a handy dandy practice sheet.

Basic Courses: 

• Appetizer
• Dinner
• Dessert
• After dinner drinks (alcoholic or coffee/tea)

There might be the addition of a seafood course and a specific salad course or a soup course or even a consomme (a vegetable or meat broth introduced between courses to clean the palette.)  One of the things my students often ask is why the portions are so small.  They're so small because there will be more in quantity from so many courses and in fine dining it's about quality of food and presentation, not quantity.

How did I learn?  My grandmother came from a very proper patrician family and my parents preferred to dine out rather than cook so I went out to restaurants a lot as a child.  And as an only child, the option normally didn't include Chuck E. Cheese.  In order to participate in these great places and have fantastic meals I had to absorb and perform good manners by a young age.  Sometimes the rules seemed cumbersome and a lot but years later on dates and at professional meetings/meals, I was prepared for it.  Often the reasons why we're rejected have more to do with manners and appearances before the depth or lack of our character.  Stack the deck in your favor.

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Kyle Phoenix
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