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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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What Do You Need? by Lauren Wesley Wilson

April 4, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, Hay House    $25.99  264 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor That wasn’t the answer you wanted. Beating around the bush, hemming and hawing, those aren’t answers. A solid yes or no, that’s […]

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Pride and Joy by Louisa Onomé

March 28, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, Atria Books  $27.99    336 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor You never have just one. That’s how it goes when something bad happens: another undesirable event usually follows it, then another, layer […]

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Easter Books for Kids by various authors

March 21, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, various publishers    $12.99 – $18.99 various page counts By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor       How do you know when it’s spring? The robins suddenly make an appearance in your back yard. The flowers […]

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Kids Books about Women’s History by Various Authors

March 7, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024,various publishers $18.99 each various page counts By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor You can do it. All your life, you’ve been told that you can do anything you set your mind to do. Try […]

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