Open my eyes, help me to see 1

In the process of doing the meme of sevens, I felt I needed to broaden my perspective. It's been a long time since I was in college, being assigned to read things I wouldn't have chosen on my own. I asked Dee at christian fiction:

. . . . What kind of a list would you, as a Christian, give someone like me to watch and read, if I wanted to have a more "integrated" mind? I would like to post it on my blog, and credit you as recommending them-- maybe five books and five movies.

I know about Frederick Douglass and James Baldwin, but have not read them. I did a project on the Harlem Renaissance in graduate school a number of years ago, but can only remember Zora Neale Hurston. I have read Toni Morrison's Beloved.

I have seen The Color Purple, Do the Right Thing, The Bishop's Wife (Whitney Houston), Glory, and maybe some others, with black lead characters-- especially Denzel Washington. Also, Hotel Rwanda. But I am talking more about America [the U.S.]. A few months ago, we saw one with James Earl Jones and Robert Duvall, A Family Thing. It was pretty good. I recommend it, if you haven't seen it. . .

I appreciate Dee's help. Read her favorites in her sevens meme. These are her recommendations to me, for continuing education.

Her list:
Five books
W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
Nella Larsen, Quicksand & Passing
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Olympia Vernon, Eden
Walter Moseley, Easy Rawlin Series: Black Betty
Five Movies
The Human Stain
The Color Purple
Waiting to Exhale
Imitation of Life
Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman

A challenge for the New Year. Thank you, Dee.