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Leslie Uggams Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress and singer of Broadway, film and TV. #HallelujahBaby, #Roots, #Empire, #Extrapolations, #Deadpool, #Nanny, #Dotty&Soul

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Book Cover for: Black Lives Matter, Jael Migiro

Black Lives Matter

Jael Migiro
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Tomorrow 2pm @StarsInTheHouse again streams #BLITHESPIRIT. It's the return of Madame Arcati (with working WiFi). Welcome @MerleDandridge as Elvira! Please join us for this very special command performance. Donations to @NAACP_LDF. Black Lives Matter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr2RXb4a77A

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Book Cover for: Jitney, August Wilson

Jitney

August Wilson
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THREAD: #BlackHistoryMonth - Play #1 Jitney – August Wilson One of 10 remarkable plays in August Wilson’s epic Pittsburgh-based Century Cycle that spans the decades of the 20th Century, Jitney is the first of the 10 Wilson wrote. Set in the 1970s, it centers on a father and 1/3

Paperback, 2011

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry
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THREAD: #BlackHistoryMonth - Play #3 A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry This seminal 1959 play brings to light the struggles of a family of three generations who have very different ideas about how to use the life insurance money left to them by the patriarch. A new home,

Paperback, Mass Market, 2004

$8.95$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Color Purple, Alice Walker

The Color Purple

Alice Walker
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THREAD: #BlackHistoryMonth - Book #5 The Color Purple – Alice Walker There are birth sisters and there are soul sisters. Alice Walker pays tribute to both in this enduring Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that brought child sexual abuse and domestic abuse out of the shadows and into

Paperback, 2019

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Piano Lesson, August Wilson

The Piano Lesson

August Wilson
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#BlackHistoryMonth - Play #2 The Piano Lesson – August Wilson Set during the Great Depression, The Piano Lesson pits brother against sister as he wants to sell the family’s heirloom piano so that he can start a business with the proceeds while she wants to keep it because 1/2

Paperback, 1990

$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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