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The Guided Life: Finding Purpose in Troubled Times

By Craig Barnett. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2019. 80 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. What does it signify to live a…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality

By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by Alex Bostic. Carolrhoda Books, 2023. 40 pages. $19.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 7–11. Against…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

Itzel and the Ocelot

By Rachel Katstaller. Kids Can Press, 2022. 40 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 3–7. To craft this culturally rich…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote

By Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by Charly Palmer. Calkins Creek, 2022. 64 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 9–12. Etched…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

By Heather McGhee. One World, 2021. 448 pages. $28/hardcover; $18/paperback; $12.99/eBook. In the United States, one of the most vital…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow

By Robert H. Mayer. NewSouth Books, 2021. 224 pages. $19.95/hardcover; $12.95/eBook. Recommended for ages 12–18. Unsung adolescent heroes of the…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America

By Michael Eric Dyson. St. Martin’s Press, 2020. 240 pages. $25.99/hardcover; $13.99/eBook.  The murder of George Floyd, which became a…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World

By Michael W. Waters, illustrated by Keisha Morris. Flyaway Books, 2020. 40 pages. $18/hardcover; $14/eBook. Recommended for ages 6–10. Recurring…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

The Slave Who Went to Congress

By Marti Rosner and Frye Gaillard, illustrated by Jordana Haggard. NewSouth Books, 2020. 32 pages. $18.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 8–12.…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

Seeking Union with Spirit: Experiences of Spiritual Journeys

By Fiona Gardner. James Backhouse Lecture, 2020. 52 pages. $14/paperback; $8.99e/Book. As Quakers, we seek to be in union with…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams