Fuel Additive 

Maureen Bunyan’s Recommended Reads

Given at the 15th Annual Southern Maryland Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast (2019) where the theme was “All life is interconnected.”

The Half Has Never Been Told – Edward E. Baptist

Why Nations Fail – Daron Acemoglu

The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the US
Ira Berlin

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West – Dee Brown

The Crusades of Ceasar Chavez – Miriam Pawell

The Fortunes of Africa – Martin Meredith

Parting the Waters – Taylor Branch


Maureen Bunyan is an Aruban American broadcast journalist of Guyanese descent. She co-anchored WUSA and WJLA-TV for over 40 years. Maureen is a founder and board member of International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF), a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and President of Maureen Bunyan Communications.

Additional Reading List

Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow

An American Mind: Selected Writings
– Theodore Roosevelt

Cash in A Flash – Mark Victor Hansen, Robert Allen

Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
– Condoleezza Rice

The Four Agreements – Ruiz Miguel

Invent and Wander – The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos – Jeff Bezos

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass – Frederick Douglass

Prophet of Freedom – David Blight

Self-Made Man – Frederick Douglass

Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill

Unbossed and Unbossed – Shirley Chisholm

The Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith

What the Bleep Do We Know: Discovering the Endless Possibilities for Altering Your Everyday Reality 
– William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente