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Saturday, September 20, 2025

Saoirse: A Novel - REVIEW

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by Charleen Hurtubise Saoirse is a powerful novel set between the United States and Ireland about a woman who runs from her traumatic past ...
Friday, September 19, 2025

The Overstory: A Novel - REVIEW

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by Richard Powers The Overstory , winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance t...

The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887–1937 - REVIEW

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by Martha H. Patterson and Henry Louis Gates Jr. An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black ...

Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America - REVIEW

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by Cody Keenan From Barack Obama’s chief speechwriter Cody Keenan, a spellbinding account of the ten most dramatic days of the presidency, w...

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking - REVIEW

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by Toni Tipton-Martin A BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR  - The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, NPR, Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, Buz...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler - REVIEW

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by Susana M. Morris As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science fiction, Octavia Butler was a trailbl...
Friday, September 12, 2025

An African American Cookbook: Exploring Black History and Culture Through Traditional Foods – REVIEW

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by Phoebe Bailey An African American Cookbook: Exploring Black History and Culture Through Traditional Foods is a bountiful collection of f...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance - REVIEW

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by Kellie Carter Jackson Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonvi...
Friday, August 15, 2025

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African - REVIEW

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by Olaudah Equiano Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century m...

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America - REVIEW

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by Patrick Phillips Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that inclu...
Wednesday, August 06, 2025

Building Bridges: Black GIs, Military Labor, and the Fight for Equality in World War II - REVIEW

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by Douglas Walter Bristol Jr. The previously overlooked story of how the labor of Black GIs helped win the war and advanced racial integrati...

The Trees: A Novel - REVIEW

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by Percival Everett Percival Everett’s The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mi...
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