I LOVE her work. Her most recent release is Joplin's Ghost which I just picked up yesterday. I would absolutely love for My Soul to Keep and the Living Blood to be turned into movies. :)

Many of my choices were mentioned.
Bertice Berry's Redemption Song brought tears to my eyes with its display of how lasting and strong love could be between two slaves.

Her books are good!! I loved Redemption Song as well as
Jim and Louella's Homemade Heart-fix Remedy and The Haunting of Hip Hop but Redemption and Jim and Louella's are my 2 favorites by her. :)

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), by Zora Neale Hurston. <- that is one of my favorite books of all time. I'm mad b/c I'm not sure where my copy is right now :(.

I also LOVED Malcom X's autobio. After I finished it the first time I got a snack and sat down and started reading it again!

"For Us, The Living" by Myrlie Evers Williams (widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers)

Maude Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks. I was lucky enough to take her class at Chicago State shortly before she past away. She was sweet and had no trouble explaining to us how and what she felt when writing this series of vignettes. It was an experience that will always remain with me.

all of these are great books and for any of you in the Charlotte,NC area...Barnes&Nobles has these books on sale for $1.00 in honor of Black History Month. I'm not sure if it's a nation wide thing...but you should look into it.
oh and if you haven't seen it...check out "The Spook Who Sat by the Door". I watched it a long time ago and just recently purchased it from Blockbuster.