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Juneteenth Books by various authors

June 20, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, The History Press / Chronicle Books         $24.99 / $17.99        141 pages / 40 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor The park shelter has been reserved. You’ve told everyone where to be and what […]

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Negotiating While Black: Be Who You Are to Get What You Want by Damali Peterman

June 6, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, Putnam                  $30.00        239 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor   Absolutely not. And that’s the final answer. Nobody’s budging on it, nobody […]

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The Black Girl Survives in This One, edited by Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell

May 30, 2024May 30, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, Flatiron Books        $19.99          368 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Don’t go into that room. Don’t start downstairs, there’s something down there you don’t want to […]

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Ella: A Novel by Diane Richards

May 23, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, Amistad              $28.00        384 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Beyonce does it. So does Misty Copeland, Drake, Alicia Keyes and Chaka Khan. You’d do […]

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The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America by Larry Tye

May 16, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, Mariner Books    $32.50    395 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Your toes didn’t wait long before they started tapping. They knew what was coming, almost as soon as the band was […]

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Books on Mothers and Motherhood by various authors

May 9, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, various publishers    $20-$29.00    various page counts By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Everybody’s had one at least once in their lives. Some people get two or more, while others don’t currently have […]

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The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and the Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History by Karen Valby

May 2, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, Pantheon            $29.00                    304 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Not one movement is wasted. Every turn of wrist, every […]

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The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn’t and How We All Can Move Forward Now by Bakari Sellers

April 25, 2024April 25, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, Amistad $29.99 192 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor You have one last nerve, and somebody’s on it. Honestly, some folks don’t know what you deal with every day, or how tired you […]

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The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

April 18, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, Penguin Press    $30.00    262 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor These days, everybody’s got a label maker. The color of your skin? Punch out a label. The texture of your hair? […]

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Books for Poetry Month by Various Authors

April 11, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2023, 2024, various publishers            $18.99 – $20.00    various page counts By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor On your hands, you got lots of time. You can make a song, […]

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  • On Friday – Toledoans Honor National Gun Violence Awareness Day

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