{"id":16616,"date":"2025-07-17T19:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=16616"},"modified":"2025-07-17T19:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:16:19","slug":"memoirs-by-various-black-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/memoirs-by-various-black-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Memoirs by Various Black Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"

c.2025, various publishers\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/em>
\n$28.00 – $34.00\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>
\nvarious page counts<\/em><\/p>\n

By Terri Schlichenmeyer<\/em>
\nThe Truth Contributor<\/em><\/p>\n

Sometimes, you just don\u2019t want to know any more.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve had it with bad news, up to your eyebrows and no more. So maybe it\u2019s time for some good news. Maybe it\u2019s time for some memoirs, biographies, and the goodness you\u2019ll find inside these great books\u2026<\/p>\n

What goes better with a warm summer evening than a few tunes? A book about a musician, that\u2019s what, and From the Shadow of the Blues: My Story of Music, Addiction and Redemption <\/em>by John Lee Hooker Jr. with Julia Simon<\/strong> (Rowman & Littlefield, $34) is a great summertime read. It\u2019s the story of a born singer, the son of a sharecropper who struggled and got through it to become a Grammy Award winning bluesman. Inspirational and lively, this memoir is as entertaining as are its author\u2019s performances.<\/p>\n

No doubt, you\u2019ve read some of Toni Morrison\u2019s work and you might be eager to learn more about her long career. In Toni<\/em><\/strong> at Random: The Iconic Writer\u2019s Legendary Editorship<\/em> by Dana A. Williams<\/strong> (Amistad, $29.99), you\u2019ll understand about the great author\u2019s somewhat-hidden career, work that many of her fans don\u2019t know much about. Working at the publisher Random House gave Morrison a chance to nourish the careers of many Black authors and, in doing so, she helped change the entire publishing world, making it more open to diversity for readers, both Black and white. With its insight to Toni Morrison\u2019s career and the behind-the-scenes of publishing past, this is truly a reader\u2019s book.<\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t help yourself, you have to watch politics, you\u2019ll want to read Trailblazer: Perseverance in Life and Politics<\/em> by former Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun<\/strong> (Hanover Square Press, $32.99). Here, readers are taken back to Braun\u2019s childhood, to see what launched her to success. There were many barriers that Braun smashed through: she made history as the first Black woman elected to the Senate. First woman representing Illinois in Washington. First senator to be appointed as an ambassador (to New Zealand). And even if you\u2019re not particularly a politics-watcher, this book is inspiring and empowering.<\/p>\n

And, finally, if you haven\u2019t exhausted your examination of racism yet, The Science of Racism: Everything You Need to Know but Probably Don\u2019t \u2013 Yet<\/em> by Keon West<\/strong> (Abrams Press, $28.00) offers a very different way of looking at the subject. West, who has \u201calways been Black,\u201d argues that we\u2019ve left science out of the topic of racism for far too long. By adding scientific measures to the realities of racism, we can understand the issue a little better, he says, and we might be able to have a different conversation about it.. Go into this book with an open mind; it\u2019s full of examples, thought-provokers, smart words, and ideas. Look closely, and you\u2019ll also find a bit of humor to get you through\u2026<\/p>\n

If you need additional books on Black history or you want another memoir by a Black authors, then head to your favorite bookstore or library. Ask the friendly face there, and you\u2019ll find lots more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

c.2025, various publishers\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $28.00 – $34.00\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 various page counts By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Sometimes, you just don\u2019t want to know any more. You\u2019ve had it with bad news, up to your eyebrows and no more. So maybe it\u2019s time for some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[20],"class_list":["post-16616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book_review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16618,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16616\/revisions\/16618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16616"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=16616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}