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How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir by Shayla Lawson

February 29, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, Tiny Rep Books / Penguin  $29.00      303 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Do you really need three pairs of shoes? The answer is probably yes: you can’t dance in hikers, […]

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Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You by A’Ja Wilson

February 22, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, Moment of Life Books / Flatiron Books    $24.99      192 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor The envelope on the table is addressed to you. .It caught your attention because – […]

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Black History Month books for Kids

February 15, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, various publishers    $18.99 each  various page counts By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor You know your history. You know about slavery and Jim Crow and Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X. You know about […]

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What Winners Won’t Tell You: Lessons from a Legendary Defender by Malcolm Jenkins

February 8, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2023, Simon & Schuster    $28.99 304 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor It’s as plain as the nose on your face. Right in front of you, that’s where it is – or, at […]

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Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism & What We Can Do to Fix It by Adia Harvey Wingfield, PhD

February 1, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2023, Amistad      $29.99    304 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Well. This wasn’t what you wanted. It was supposed to be better than this, wasn’t it? But it’s not anywhere close […]

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Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock, MD

January 25, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, Viking    $28.00      304 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Ugh, suddenly, just now, you don’t feel well. Not at all. It might help to lie down somewhere for a few […]

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What Really Happens in Vegas: True Stories of the People Who Make Vegas, Vegas by James Patterson and Mark Seal

January 18, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2023, Little, Brown  $30.00  358 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Toledo Hit that “spin” button. Hit it again, one more time, move onto the next “one-armed bandit,” take in a show, watch water dance, […]

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Who Got Game? Basketball by Derrick Barnes, illustrated by Jez Tuya

January 11, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2023, Workman Publishing      $16.99        172 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor A little less than two feet. That’s how far you can get your two feet off the floor […]

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The Best Books of 2023

January 4, 2024January 4, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Sometimes, reading is like a roulette wheel. You put your money down on a book that looks good, and you take your chances. If you’re lucky, you get a […]

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The Day After Yesterday: Resilience in the Face of Dementia by Joe Wallace

December 28, 2023 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2023, The MIT Press                $34.95    157 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Sometimes, Mom talks a lot of nonsense. She talks in random syllables, half-jokes, thoughts […]

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