Books
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies,’ edited by Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo
f you're a history buff or a reader of Civil War-era accounts, one peek inside "Make Good the Promises" will…
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy’ by Gayle Jessup White
If you, too, are searching through your past for a hidden truth, "Reclamation" may be a hard book to leave.
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture’ by Zeba Blay
Take a good look at the subtitle of "Carefree Black Girls." See the indication of a "celebration"? If that's what…
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem’ by Amanda Gorman, pictures by Loren Long
This book is a good start to a current-events conversation, or you can just enjoy it for its musical prose.…
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America’ by Keisha N. Blain
Blain's account of Black life in the Jim Crow South is important — maybe more so because she leaves none…
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Redemption of Bobby Love’ by Bobby and Cheryl Love with Lori L. Tharps
Don't breathe one word of what you're about to hear, not to anyone living or dead. This is top-secret information,…
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Things We Couldn’t Say’ by Jay Coles
This book is aimed at readers ages 12 and up, but beware that there are a few gently explicit, but…
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Recent & Recommended Books on Loans & Personal Finance
Debt sucks. Period. And that includes student loan debt.
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence’ by Anita Hill
It's hard to nail down one single fix for issues of gender violence from the pages of "Believing." Dive in,…
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America’ by Amy Argetsinger
"There She Was" is quite the feel-good book. If you're a feminist, fan, or former wanna-be, find it, don't wave…
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Forgotten First: Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis and the Breaking of the NFL Color Barrier’ by Keyshawn Johnson and Bob Glauber
If you're not a history-minded, live-for-football-season, paint-your-face fan, you may be in well over your head with this book. If…
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate and Sisterhood’ by Dawn Turner
This is one of those books that's warm to the start and envelopes you like a hug mixed with gravel.…
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BOOK REVIEW: Books About September 11, 2001, by various authors
You remember exactly where you were.
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BOOK REVIEWS: ‘How the Word is Passed’ by Clint Smith and ‘Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South’ by Winfred Rembert
The history of America cannot be told without slavery in every cranny of the tale.
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BOOK REVIEW: Back-to-School Books
Why not start the year off right by adding these great books to the Back-to-School pile?
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Reckoning: Our Nation’s Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal’ by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D.
You may not like what you read but it's going to force you to think, hard, about the future, individually…
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Recent & Recommended Books to Promote Academic Excellence
Since 2016, the Black Lives Matter at School movement has carved a new path for racial justice in education.
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond,’ Edited by Halimah Marcus
If you ever trotted around the yard, pretending to be a horse, or if you actually spent your girlhood in…
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Recent & Recommended Books on Racial Stress
Presenting ways in which Restorative Yoga can contribute to healing emotional wounds, this book invites yoga teachers, therapists and practitioners…
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires’ by Jaime Lowe
You can never be too careful when it's fire season and in the new book "Breathing Fire" by Jaime Lowe,…
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Blackout’ by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk and Nicola Yoon
Despite its strong language (but no action past kissing), it's great for gentle romantics ages 15 to adult, so find…
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New Book ‘You Will Know the Truth’ Garners Advance Praise
“You Will Know the Truth,” a new hardcover political thriller by D.C.-based attorney Leslie T. Thornton, has garnered select advance…
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BOOK REVIEW: Safe Travels
You'd hop in a car or van, no GPS or map, no real itinerary, no destination in mind. You'd point…
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘No One Succeeds Alone: Learn Everything You Can from Everyone You Can’ by Robert Reffkin
If your office is filling up again and your staff is now returning, this book might be a great way…
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Leaving Breezy Street: A Memoir’ by Brenda Myers-Powell with April Reynolds
Bear in mind that this book is packed with profanity but there's also a laugh or two, in a dark…
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