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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class by Blair LM Kelley

July 6, 2023 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2023, Liveright            $30.00 338 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor At least you won’t have to move. You keep telling yourself that, ever since the boss decided to downsize […]

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The Talk by Darrin Bell

June 29, 2023 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2023, Henry Holt and Company $29.99 352 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Someone who was older than you taught you to tie your shoes. An elder showed you around a kitchen, a car, […]

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Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys’ Club and Transform America by Garrett Neiman, foreword by Robin DiAngelo, introduction by Allen Kwabena Frimpong

June 22, 2023 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2023, Legacy Lit        $29.00        384 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor One step ahead, three steps behind. That’s how your life feels sometimes. You make movement forward and […]

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Juneteenth Books by Various Authors and Illustrators

June 15, 2023 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2023, various publishers                    $5.99 – $18.99                    various page counts By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor The celebration […]

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Books for Father’s Day by Various Authors and Illustrators

June 15, 2023June 15, 2023 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2022, 2023, various publishers  $17.99-$18.99    various page counts By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Dads are pretty good people to have around. They can make you laugh and make you behave. They teach you […]

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Swipe Up for More! Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influences by Stephanie McNeal

June 8, 2023 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2023, Penguin Portfolio                               $29.00                                          272 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Left mouse: buy. And now you sit. In a few days, that item you saw on social media will arrive on your […]

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Crowned: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora by Kahran and Regis Bethencourt

June 1, 2023 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2023, St. Martin’s Press $35.00 260 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Once upon a time, fairy tales were full of dragons and ogres and sprites. There were magic mice and talking frogs. There […]

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In the Company of Grace: A Veterinarian’s Memoir of Trauma and Healing” by Jody Lulich

May 25, 2023 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2023, University of Minnesota Press  $19.95                      232 pages You are a product of what your parents do. They nurtured you, and you learned to nurture. […]

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King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

May 18, 2023 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2023, Farrar, Straus and Giroux      $35.00          671 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor The life of the hero you most admire has been an open book. For much […]

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White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation by Naa Oyo A. Kwate

May 11, 2023 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2023, University of Minnesota Press  $29.95    451 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Hold the pickles, no mustard. Double patty, add bacon, fried onions, that’s how you like your burger. As for chicken, […]

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