Tag: race
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BR344) “The Secret Life of Bees” Book Review
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. 4/5 rating. 302 pages. Book #6 of 2024. Finished January 31, 2024. This is the beautiful tale of a girl named Lily, and her former housekeeper, Rosaleen. Lily has had a hard life, she has been treated terribly by her father for as long as she…
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BR315) “Twelve Years A Slave” Book Review
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup. 4/5 rating. 197 pages. Book #31 of 2023. Read July 27, 2023. This is the incredible and harrowing tale of Solomon’s kidnapping and 12 years spent being a slave in the South. Solomon was a free man born in New York that was (probably?) drugged, kidnapped and illegally…
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BR289) “The Warmth of Other Suns” Book Review
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson. 4/5 rating. 560 pages. Book #5 of 2023. Read February 26, 2023. This book tells the story of The Great Migration of African Americans to escape the American South during Jim Crow. The amount of research and information in here…
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BR118) “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” Book Review
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley. 3/5 rating. 389 pages. Book #43 of 2020. Read June 29, 2020. This is one of those books that I’m torn on how to rate. Because of Malcolm’s prominence as a Civil Rights Leader, I think it is important, but it’s a long book…
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BR79) A Perilous Path Book Review
A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law by Sherrilyn Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, and Anthony Thompson. 4/5 rating. Book #4 of 2020. Read January 8, 2020. This book was an incredible meld of four powerful and influential minds. The dialogue is taken from an NYU discussion as a part of the launch…
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BR62) Between the World and Me Book Review
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. 4/5 rating. Book #137 of 2019. Read December 1, 2019. This book needs to be a required read for everyone in America. It is heart wrenching to hear Ta-Nehisi describe his world to his son. You can feel his utter fear, hopelessness, and sense of inequality throughout…