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Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival by Maria Pinto

October 23, 2025October 23, 2025 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2025, The University of North Carolina Press  $23.00    240 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Something weird is growing on your kitchen sink. It wasn’t there last night but today? Yeah, and it’s […]

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The House on Rondo by Debra J. Stone

October 16, 2025October 16, 2025 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2025, University of Minnesota Press    $17.95                104 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor You remember how the sun streamed through the window. It lit up a […]

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A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence On Black Life in America by Trymaine Lee

October 9, 2025 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2025, St. Martin’s Press $29.00    257 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Face it: some scores can never truly be settled. You can try tit-for-tat, you can scheme and plan, but making things […]

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107 Days by Kamala Harris

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2025, Simon & Schuster $30.00 305 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The truth Contributor Five minutes is all it takes to make a simple PB&J sandwich. You can watch an episode of your favorite crime drama […]

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The Double Tax: How Women of Color are Overcharged and Underpaid by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, foreword by Chelsea Clinton

September 25, 2025 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2025, Portfolio $29.00 256 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Your favorite Uncle will want to hear from you in about six months, maybe sooner. He’ll want to talk about your wallet, first and […]

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History Matters by David McCullough, edited by Dorie McCullough Lawson and Michael Hill, foreword by Jon Meacham

September 18, 2025 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2025, Simon & Schuster $27.00 169 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor It all happens so fast. Seems like 20 minutes after something occurs, another event takes its place; even this morning’s news already […]

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American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback by Seth Wickersham

September 11, 2025 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2025, Hyperion Avenue    $29.99 407 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor   Snap. And with that, and a catch that’s picture-perfect, your team is on their way to another win. The guy that […]

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Black History & Memoirs by Various Authors

September 4, 2025 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2025, various publishers        $28.99 – $35.00  various page counts By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor   Okay, fun’s over. Summer is done, school’s back in session, fall is here, and it’s time […]

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Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation by Bitter Kalli, c.2025, Amistad $22.00 192 pages

August 28, 2025August 28, 2025 Sojourner’s Truth

By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor One thousand, two hundred pounds and four legs. Put that between your knees and you’ll find out what real horsepower is. You’re five feet off the ground, moving as […]

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Lead Boldly: Seven Principles from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Robert F. Smith

August 21, 2025 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2025, HarperCollins Leadership            $31.99              240 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Watch and learn. If you’ve ever had to do something thorny or […]

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