Book Reviews
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Book Review: Groundbreaking Magic: A Black Woman’s Journey Through the Happiest Place on Earth
Your dream job is still a job. You still must be there on time, look presentable and be ready to…
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Book Review: Kids Books on Voting by Various Authors
So, who will you vote for? That's easy: nobody yet, because you're still a kid -- but you have your…
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Book Review: “John Lewis: A Life” by David Greenberg
You give, and you give, and you give. No problem. If you can be of service to your community, then…
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Book Review: “The Fallen Fruit” by Shawntelle Madison
You're lucky you didn't hit your head! The damage you did to yourself was bad enough. You didn't need a…
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Book Review: ‘The Outsider Advantage: Because You Don’t Need to Fit in to Win’
Some say you march to a different drummer. You follow the music you hear in your soul, blazing your own…
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Book Review: 54 Miles
Deep down inside, there's a part of you that always wants to do right. Did someone teach you that? Or…
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Book Review: Treating Violence: An Emergency Room Doctor Takes on a Deadly American Epidemic
Well, thank you so much to your co-worker. That's where you got this ick, this scratchy-throat, achy-body, upset-stomach, can't-sleep virus.…
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Book Review: ‘The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America’
Your toes didn't wait long before they started tapping. They knew what was coming, almost as soon as the band…
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Book Review: “Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You” by A’Ja Wilson
The envelope on the table is addressed to you. It caught your attention because -- who, besides politicians, utilities, and…
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Book Review: “Who Got Game? Basketball”
A little less than two feet. That's how far you can get your two feet off the floor if you're…
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Books: “The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation” by Raquel Willis
By Terri Schlichenmeyer The catalogs should start arriving soon. If you’re a gardener, that’s a siren song for you. What…
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Book Review: “Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement”
The One Percent has everything you do not. A fancy house in a posh place. Designer clothing, fast cars. Friends…
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For Those Facing Divorce: Book Guides Readers Down a Gentler Path That Leads to a Brighter Future
For those who have made the difficult decision to divorce, psychologist Ronald Raymond and attorney Jeffrey Stephens pave a gentler…
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BOOK REVIEW: “The Day After Yesterday: Resilience in the Face of Dementia”
Well into his twenties, Joe Wallace was asked to sit with his "Granddaddy Joe" while Wallace's mother and grandmother ran…
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BOOK REVIEW: Black Entertainers on Big and Small Screen Recalled in New Books by Two Authors
Once was a time when you rarely saw a Black face in entertainment unless you were specifically looking for one…
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Oakland Author’s Book Inspired by Black Community’s Quest for Love
In 2012, Aswad and his wife, Danyelle Aarif, began holding Black Love Healing Circles in their home to create a…
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Real Life Fears During Jim Crow Era Compound Horror for Incarcerated Children in ‘The Reformatory’
You’ll do better next time. You’re sorry, deeply sorry, sincere in your apology, and it won’t happen again. You had…
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BOOK REVIEW: For Renowned Peloton Instructor, a Series of Failures Led to Success
The son of Haitian immigrants, Alex Toussaint grew up in a stable, middle-class household with both parents involved in his…
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In ‘The New Brownies’ Book,’ Authors Build on Magazine for Black, Brown Families During Harlem Renaissance
Ten years after the launching of the ‘infamous’ The Crisis magazine, W.E.B. Du Bois, Augustus Granville Dill and Jessie Redmon…
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Bayard Rustin’s Legacy of Protest, Politics Redundant in Essay Form
You will never settle. And why should you? If it's not right, you make it right. If it can be…
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Across Generations, ‘One Blood’ Reveals a Bitter Family Legacy
One drop. That's all they said it took to determine someone’s race. Just one drop, the tiniest of amounts, and…
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“Lucky Medicine” by Lester W. Thompson
It didn't arrive in a package. It wasn't wrapped in fancy paper. It didn't arrive with cake or candles. And…
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Books about Black Women’s Body Image by Various Authors
c.2023, Well House Books, Indiana University Press $24.00 196 pages It didn’t arrive in a package. It wasn’t wrapped…
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“I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir” by Debra Lee
Everybody's looking at you. They're wondering what you're going to do next, because you often surprise them. They don't know…
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More Books Touch on Different Eras as Black History Month Nears End
It’s been more than a century since the Tulsa Race Massacre, and it still seems like there’s much to learn…
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