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Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present by Mary Frances Berry

January 23, 2025January 23, 2025 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024,Beacon Press $27.95 184 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Your kids will have a better life than you had. You’ll make sure of it, saving for their education, demanding excellence from them, requiring […]

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New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement by Juan Williams

January 16, 2025January 16, 2025 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2025, Simon & Schuster    $28.99      271 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor You’re not letting go that easily. No, you’re on the right side of justice and you’re not letting go […]

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The Best of 2024!

January 9, 2025January 9, 2025 Sojourner’s Truth

By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Once the holidays are over, you may look around you at a floor full of spent wrapping paper and sad ribbons and wonder, “What’s next?” A whole new year, […]

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End of Year Book Roundup – A Few of the Year’s Best!! Part I

December 24, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor So you looked at the calendar the other day and… eeeek. We’re in the middle of the holidays already – but there is always time to gift someone … […]

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In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World, edited by Paul Gardullo, Johanna Obenda, and Anthony Bogues, written by various contributors

December 21, 2024December 21, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, Smithsonian Books                      $39.95                    240 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Ever since you learned […]

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Books for Dad or Grandpa by various authors

December 21, 2024December 21, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, various publishers            $26.00 – $32.95        various page counts By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Your gift list this year has a lot of empty spaces. You’ve […]

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Affrilachia: Testimonies by Chris Aluka Berry with Kelly Elaine Navies and MaiaA. Surdam

December 12, 2024December 12, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024,University of Kentucky Press $50.00 252 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor An average oak tree is bigger around than two people; together, we can reach. That mighty tree starts out with an acorn […]

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If We Are Brave: Essays from Black Americana by Theodore R. Johnson

December 12, 2024December 12, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, Amistad      $30.00          208 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor What do you think? You may remember the first time a respected adult asked you in earnest for […]

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Christmas Books for Little Kids by various authors and illustrators

December 5, 2024December 5, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, various publishers                    $14.99 to $18.99          various page counts By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor You’d better watch out. And you know […]

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Growing Up Urkel by Jaleel White

November 21, 2024 Sojourner’s Truth

c.2024, Simon & Schus $28.99                          336 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor At some point in the next few weeks, somebody’s going […]

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  • On Friday – Toledoans Honor National Gun Violence Awareness Day

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