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• hide and seek at Barnes and Noble

• pick out books for each other at Half Price bookstore

• read to a group of local kids at a library (ask their parents first)

• make a homemade pizza together

• have an impromptu photo shoot at a park

• go thrifting

• Facetime and Netflix so you can see each others reactions

• people watch and make stories for them at a mall

• try on clothes at a store you know damn well you can’t afford

• do laundry (don’t knock it till you try it)

• attend an outdoor event (often times they’re free or dirt cheap)

• teach other one of your favorite hobbies/things (2k, makeup, cooking, basketball, etc)

• play something at the crib (jenga, speed, uno … okay maybe not uno but you get the idea)

• hang out with a family member (i guarantee free food 9 times outta 10)

• late night star gazing (find a good rooftop where there aren’t many lights, makes it a lot better.)

• make each other a mixtape

• penny date (flip a coin at every intersection, left is heads, right is tails. no gps and charge your phones! make a date outta where you end up.)

• draw a picture of each other

• go on a picnic and tell each other your best bad pickup lines

• go to the beach (or a swimming pool)

• open mic/poetry night (some are free, some you have to pay for)

• baseball game (you can find tickets for dirt cheap if you know where to look)

• volunteer somewhere

• catch a matinee of a new movie (most theaters don’t charge more than 6 bucks a ticket before 4:00)

• play music on speakers in wal mart and dance to it

• comedy club on a free night

• concert at a local university (most times they’re free, might charge if you’re not a student though)

• go on a hike (if you’re into that sort of thing)

• walk around the neighborhood you grew up in and talk about each others childhood

• watch a local outdoor sporting event (a lot of the time you can catch an outdoor softball game or basketball game, maybe they’ll let you play?)

this list ignores the last 15 years of movies, but that makes sense. if we’re going to talk about “classics”, we have to give the movies time to become classics.

legend ( italicized - seen it, bold- have a copy of it too)

Carmen Jones (1954)

Imitation of Life (1959)

Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Shaft (1971)

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)

Super Fly (1972)

Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

The Mack (1973)

Coffy (1973)

Black Caesar (1973)

Cleopatra Jones (1974)

Foxy Brown (1974)

Claudine (1974)

Uptown Saturday Night (1974)

Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)

Dolemite (1975)

Cooley High (1975)

Mahogany (1975)

Sparkle (1976)

Car Wash (1976)

The Wiz (1978)

Breakin’ (1984)

Beat Street (1984)

A Soldier’s Story (1984)

Purple Rain (1984)

Krush Groove (1985)

The Color Purple (1985)

Hollywood Shuffle (1987)

Raw (1987)

School Daze (1988)

Coming to America (1988)

Lean On Me (1989)

Glory (1989)

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Harlem Nights (1989)

Mo’ Better Blues (1989)

House Party (1990)

The Five Heartbeats (1991)

Jungle Fever (1991)

Strictly Business (1991)

Boyz n the Hood (1991)

New Jack City (1991)

White Men Can’t Jump (1992)

Bebe’s Kids (1992) (used to have this on VHS lol)

Boomerang (1992)

Malcolm X (1992)

Juice (1992)

Class Act (1992)

What’s Love Got to Do With It (1993)

CB4 (1993)

Posse (1993)

Poetic Justice (1993)

Menace II Society (1993)

Jason’s Lyric (1994)

A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)

Tales From the Hood (1995)

Bad Boys (1995)

Friday (1995)

Waiting to Exhale (1995)

Higher Learning (1995)

Set It Off (1996)

Hav Plenty (1998)

Eve’s Bayou (1997)

Love Jones (1997)

Soul Food (1997)

Belly (1998)

How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)

The Best Man (1999)

The Wood (1999)

Love & Basketball (2000)

of course she couldn’t get ALL of the movies on here… but some notable misses :

The Temptations (1998)

Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998)

Dead Presidents (1995)

Polly (1989)

A Hero Ain’t Nothing But A Sandwich (1978)

The Marva Collins Story (1981)

Sister Act II (1993)

Hoodlum (1997)

Women of Brewster Place (1989) 

Little Richard (2000)

Bamboozled (2000)

I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)

The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992)

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)

Preacher’s Wife (1996)

The Bodyguard (1992)

Mo Money (1992) (ok maybe not so notable, but yeah)

Blankman (1994)