Here is a list of suggested reading - from the personal library shelf of  Denise Bolds, MSW

Secret Saturday's  Torey Maldonado. Putnam's Sons.

Miss Sue Lucky's Fishin Secrets Eric Jerome Brown.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in thAge of Colorblindness.  Michelle Alexander. The New Press.

Pull Up Your Pants and Be a MAN!!! Bernice Harris Write One Publications, Inc.

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy Degruy Leary (Hardcover - Jan 2005).

What's Going on Down There?: Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask by Karen Gravelle, Nick Castro, Chava Castro, and Robert Leighton (Paperback - Oct 1, 1998).

Saving Our Sons by Marita Golden (Paperback - Dec 1, 1995).

RESTORING THE MALE IMAGE by Alex, O. Ellis (Hardcover - May 4, 2007).

Santa & Pete: A Novel Of Christmas Present And Past by Christopher Moore and Pamela Johnson (Hardcover - Nov 12, 1998).

What Mama Couldn't Tell Us About Love: Healing the Emotional Legacy of Racism by Celebrating Our Light by Brenda Richardson and Dr. Brenda Wade (Paperback - Jul 3, 2000).

Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting by Terrie Williams(Hardcover - Jan 8, 2008).

MAMA KNOWS BEST: African-American Wives’ Tales, Myths, and Remedies for Mothers and Mothers-to-be Be by Chrisena Coleman (Hardcover - May 11, 1997).

The Giving Tree 40th Anniversary Edition Book with CD by Shel Silverstein (Hardcover - Mar 30, 2004).

What to Expect When You're Expecting: 4th Edition by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel (Paperback - April 10, 2008).

Sex for One: The Joy of Self loving by Betty Dodson (Paperback - Mar 12, 1996).

A Woman's Worth by Marianne Williamson (Paperback - Mar 8, 1994).

Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in Our Schools by Pedro A. Noguera and Jean Yonemura Wing (Paperback - Aug 18, 2008).

A Piece of Cake: A Memoir by Cupcake Brown (Paperback - April 10, 2007).

Midnight: A Gangster Love Story by Sister Souljah (Hardcover - Nov 4, 2008).

In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas by Theodore Dalrymple (Hardcover - Sep 25, 2007)

Race Matters. Cornel West (Hardcover - May 25, 2001).

Raising Kanye: Life Lessons from the Mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar by Donda West, Karen Hunter, and Kanye West (Hardcover - May 8, 2007)

Yesterday, I Cried : Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving by Iyanla Vanzant (Mass Market Paperback - Aug 7, 2001).

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Paperback - May 30, 2006).

Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors by Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint (Hardcover - Oct 9, 2007).

Sacred Pampering Principles: An African-AmericaWoman's Guide to Self-care and Inner Renewal by Debrena J. Gandy (Author).

Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era by Boston Women's Health Book Collective. Judy Norsigian (Paperback - April 19, 2005).

And on the Eighth Day She Rested: A Novel by J. D. Mason (Paperback - Mar 2003).

Girl, Get that Child Support by Cathy Middleton (Paperback - Oct 1, 2006)

What Every Woman Should Know About Divorce and Custody (Rev): Judges, Lawyers, and Therapists Share Winning Strategies on How to Keep the Kids, the Cash, and Your Sanity by J.D., Gayle Rosenwald Smith and Sally Abrahms (Paperback - Jul 3, 2007)

What Every Woman Should Know about Divorce and Custody by Gayle Rosenwald Smith (Paperback - Nov 1, 1998).

I want to Teach…Not Raise Your Kids! Calicchia, Lisa.

Having Babies By Bums: 10 Lessons Every Woman Should Know to Avoid Choosing A Terrible Father For Her Child. Webb, M.R