10 Classic Black Books That Should Be Made Into Films

Brothers and Sisters

Bebe Moore Campbell

The late ’80’s and ’90’s were almost sort of an unspoken renaissance  for contemporary Black writers. I’m talking Eric Jerome Dickey, Terry McMillan, Sheneska Jackson and of course, Bebe Moore Campbell. While the story itself, which takes place during the time of the L.A. Riots, would now teeter the line of being historical fiction; modern day Black women will find kinship in the story’s black lady professional protagonist who not only struggles with the white folks in her corporate job in banking, but her blue-collar man with esteem issues of his own. Campbell knows how to paint a good picture in her stories. A good Hollywood script writer could make the backstory more relevant – say instead of the riots and the banking industry of the 90s, we can do L.A. after the economic crash and at the time of the start of Black Lives Matters.