Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance by Ben Passmore
c.2005, Pantheon $22.00 223 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor This week, you plan on acting up. In a good […]
Category: Book Review
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams
c.2025, Tiny Rep Books $32.00 291 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor You’re not planning on being shelfish. But seriously, you’ve been […]
How I Know White People are Crazy and Other Stories by Dr. Jonathan Mathias Lassiter
c.2025, Legacy Lit $30.00 320 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor It’s enough to make you lose your mind. You see your goal, but there’s a barrier […]
Champion: A Graphic Novel by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld, illustrated by Ed Laroche
c.2025, Ten Speed Graphic $26.99 128 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Your future is all laid out. Work a few summers, graduate, go to college, gather […]
Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival by Maria Pinto
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 […]
The House on Rondo by Debra J. Stone
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 […]
A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence On Black Life in America by Trymaine Lee
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 […]
107 Days by Kamala Harris
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 […]
The Double Tax: How Women of Color are Overcharged and Underpaid by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, foreword by Chelsea Clinton
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 […]
History Matters by David McCullough, edited by Dorie McCullough Lawson and Michael Hill, foreword by Jon Meacham
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 […]