Firstborn Girls: A Memoir by Bernice L. McFadden
c.2025, Dutton $30.00 400 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor The Bible includes a lot of begatting. Cush begat Nimrod. Jacob begat Joseph. Abraham begat […]
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Qualified: How Competency Checking and Race Collide at Work by Shari Dunn
c.2025, Harper Business $32.00 320 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth […]
Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette by Jennifer Jones
c.2025, Amistad $26.99 208 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Step, step, kick. Twirl, step, and kick again. Left, right, step. The choreography is all new to you, but you’ll get it eventually, no […]
Fearless and Free: A Memoir by Josephine Baker, translated by Anam Zafar and Sophie Lewis, foreword by Ijeoma Oluo
c.2025, Tiny Reparations Books $32.00 304 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor You march to the tun of your own drummer because […]
Black History Month books for Kids by various authors and illustrators
c.2024, 2025 $17.95 – $18.99 various page counts By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Your mother tells you stories. She talks about things that happened before you were born; Grandpa does it, too, […]
In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space by Irvin Weathersby Jr.
c.2025, Viking $30.00 256 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor The issue appears to be permanent. It’s been […]
Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present by Mary Frances Berry
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 […]
New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement by Juan Williams
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 […]
The Best of 2024!
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, […]
End of Year Book Roundup – A Few of the Year’s Best!! Part I
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 … […]