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Category: Book Review

The Best Books of 2021

December 29, 2021December 29, 2021 Sojourner’s Truth

By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor There’s still a lot of winter left. That’s the fact staring you in the face. Once the holiday decorations are down, the toys are all put away, and you’ve […]

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Prince: A Portrait of the Artist in Memories & Memorabilia by Paul Sexton, foreword by Susan Rogers

December 9, 2021December 9, 2021 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2021, Welbeck Publishing $24.95 / higher in Canada 143 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor The cover promised greatness. Just a whisper over 12 inches square, you knew there was magic inside; even its […]

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Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies, edited by Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2021, Amistad $29.99 / $36.99 Canada 224 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Scout’s honor. It’s a pledge, hope to die, and pinky swear. Someone’s offered their word and now you have expectations. They’ve […]

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Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy by Gayle Jessup White

November 26, 2021 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2021, Amistad $27.99 / $34.99 Canada 288 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Sometimes, you feel like a tree. Like a sentinel standing tall, you bend with the wind but never break. Small children […]

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Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem by Amanda Gorman, pictures by Loren Long

November 18, 2021 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2021, Viking Penguin      $18.99 / $24.99 Canada        32 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor You don’t like that. It wasn’t what you wanted. You didn’t ask for it and […]

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Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture by Zeba Blay

November 10, 2021 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2021, St. Martin’s Press $16.99 / $22.99 Canada 260 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor You used to like to skip. Filled with delight, you danced down the sidewalk, not minding at all who […]

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Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain

November 4, 2021 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2021, Beacon Press $25.95 / $34.95 Canada 200 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Tis the season of giving. A few coins in a bucket, folded dollars in an envelope, an extra donation to […]

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Things We Couldn’t Say by Jay Coles

October 28, 2021 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2021, Scholastic $18.99 / higher in Canada 320 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor   You’d like an explanation, please. Why something is done or not, why permission is denied, you’d like to hear […]

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The Redemption of Bobby Love by Bobby and Cheryl Love with Lori L. Tharps

October 21, 2021 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2021, Mariner Books / HMH Books $28.00 288 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Not a whisper. Don’t breathe one word of what you’re about to hear, not to anyone living or dead. This […]

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Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence by Anita Hill

October 14, 2021 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2021, Viking $30.00 / $40.00 Canada 352 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor The grab was savage. You yelped because you weren’t expecting it. Because it shouldn’t have happened. It was rough enough to […]

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