Michael Eric Dyson is back with his newly released book today, What Truth Sounds Like. What Truth Sounds Like is Dyson’s continued discussion of race in America, carried over from his book last year called Tears We Cannot Stop A Sermon to White America. It was a book that was written specifically to speak to […]
The Warmth of Other Suns is my favorite non-fiction for many reasons. It reads like fiction and I learned a lot while reading it. If you haven’t picked it up, you need to. It’s extraordinary! If you like this, you’ll love The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks. This little gem covers her earliest poetry from […]
I decided to go with Another Day in the Death of America because it’s on my 2018 TBR. It’d a book hat I’m hesitant about reading because of the tragedy it contains. However, I realize and accept that these stories need to be told. Sadly, gun control is something we still can’t seem to tackle […]
I must admit the first time I saw this cover and read this title I was immediately drawn in and was curious to see what this book was all about. As soon as, I realized that it was a collection of essays written by women recounting life living without their fathers and their sometimes subsequent […]
If you’re an avid reader like me, your worst nightmare is standing in front of your bookcase (insert picture of bookcase overflowing with different sized books with colorful enticing spines and a few stacks on the floor because there’s no more room on the shelves) and trying to find the next book to rock your […]
Day 20 – A Red Book: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present “From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. Medical […]
Day 19 – Currently Reading My copies: Like Trees, Walking, paperback 252 pages Blacks, paperback 512 pages Jubilee, paperback 497 pages Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Black Heroes, at Home and at War, hardcover 368 pages I’m an affiliate for The Book Depository. It would be much appreciated to click the link below if […]
Day 13 – A Must Read: Today’s photo challenge wasn’t easy to choose either. There are so many great must reads. I decided to go with The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson that I’m reading at the moment. I don’t usually read a lot of non-fiction but something seems to be changing in my […]
2 – 5 Faves by a Theme {eg. Audiobooks, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mysteries, Books with Surprise Twists, Surprise Endings, Non-Fiction, Books That Made You Cry, Laugh Out Loud, Cringe, Book Boyfriends That Stole Your Heart, Apocalypse, Dystopian, Best books with kick ass girls, favorite siblings, couples, friends, most hated and loved villains} – link-up […]
The old saying is that you never know what someone else is going through or living until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes and frankly it’s impossible. However, John Howard Griffin turned his skin black and tried to live as a black man for six weeks while travelling through the Deep South in 1959. […]
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