Almost 50

Unfiltered truths about money, aging, and survival after 50 — through the lens of history and the African American experience

Sunday, March 22, 2026

The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution - REVIEW

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by Jesse Wegman As a young lawyer, James Wilson made a celebrated case for American independence in an essay that inspired the famous words ...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York's Explosive '80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation - REVIEW

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by Elliot Williams On a dirty New York subway car on December 22, 1984, Bernhard Goetz shot Barry Allen, Darrell Cabey, Troy Canty, and Jame...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

On Morrison - REVIEW

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by Namwali Serpell Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and one of our most beloved writers, has inspired generations of readers. But her artistic ...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Burn Down Master's House: A Novel - REVIEW

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by Clay Cane As turmoil simmers within a divided nation, smoke from another blaze begins to rise. Sparked by individual acts of resistance a...

Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen - REVIEW

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by Cheryl W. Thompson In 1945, World War II ended one of the deadliest conflicts in history. Geared for battle were nearly 1,000 trailblazin...

The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America - REVIEW

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by Christopher C. Gorham As Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s special envoy to Europe in World War II she went where the president couldn’t go. Sh...
Sunday, March 08, 2026

Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend: Reconsidering Lincoln as Commander in Chief - REVIEW

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by Kenneth W. Noe Kenneth W. Noe’s Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend boldly questions the long-accepted notion that the sixteenth presi...

Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration - REVIEW

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by Harold Holzer In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever alter...
Saturday, March 07, 2026

The Chosen and The Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States - REVIEW

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by David J. Silverman This year mark the 250th anniversary of American Independence, and it's imperative we consider the integral role I...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America - REVIEW

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by Michael Eric Dyson Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race have shaped Barack Obama’s identity and ...

Wait for Me: A Novel - REVIEW

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by Amy Jo Burns Young folk singer Elle Harlow reaches the height of her prowess in 1973, with two wildly beloved albums to her name and a hi...
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