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Olayemi Olurin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Olayemi Olurin is a movement lawyer, political commentator, and writer. 🇧🇸🇳🇬Movement Lawyer + Political Commentator. subscribe to Olurinatti on YouTube and substack

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Book Cover for: Giving a Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind, Patricia Williams

Giving a Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind

Patricia Williams
Olayemi OlurinOlayemi Olurin

Book recommendation where I got this information: Giving A Damn by Patricia Williams https://t.co/KpVhjSSwDZ https://t.co/eW3OzMH03O

Hardcover, 2021

$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Autobiography: I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes

Autobiography: I Wonder as I Wander

Langston Hughes
Olayemi OlurinOlayemi Olurin

@___inCANdescent Have you read langston hughes autobiography the big sea? I really liked the portions about zora because it seems clear she was always broke, talented, and still the life of the party. And once anybody wronged her, including langston, she did not mess around gettin her lick back😂

Hardcover, 2003

$54.00$29.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Book Cover for: Saving Nine, Mike Lee

Saving Nine

Mike Lee
Olayemi OlurinOlayemi Olurin

Republican Utah Senator Mike Lee appeared on the show to promote his book “Saving Nine: The Fight Against the Left’s Audacious Plan to Pack the Supreme Court and Destroy American Liberty” I pushed back— reminding him 9 is not set in stone and we’ve changed that number many times https://t.co/Qder6dpJey

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Yonder Come Day: Exploring the Collective Witness of the Formerly Enslaved, Jasmine L. Holmes

Yonder Come Day: Exploring the Collective Witness of the Formerly Enslaved

Jasmine L. Holmes
Olayemi OlurinOlayemi Olurin

I cannot recommend this book highly enough to anyone trying to learn more about immigration in America

Paperback, 2024

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot, Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall
Olayemi OlurinOlayemi Olurin

I’ve been reading Hood Feminism but I’m pausing to read Patriarchy Blues (new instant NYT bestseller from @FredTJoseph) today because I’m hype for it! https://t.co/si0kj4jwLN

Paperback, 2021

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Love, Toni Morrison

Love

Toni Morrison
Olayemi OlurinOlayemi Olurin

For Valentine’s Day: here’s a list of amazing books about love you should read by the late great bell hooks and Toni Morrison! https://t.co/5nwaliX20U

Paperback, 2005

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Women I Love, Francesco Pacifico

The Women I Love

Francesco Pacifico
Olayemi OlurinOlayemi Olurin

I don’t read much fiction but I loved this author’s book “The Women I Love” so I decided to buy his other novels https://t.co/rdVHiT99kc

Paperback, 2022

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: People Person, Candace Cartywilliams

People Person

Candace Cartywilliams
Olayemi OlurinOlayemi Olurin

I finished this and I LOVED it. I’ll probably reread this a few times. This even outdid her debut novel Queenie for me, highly recommend

Hardcover, Large Print, 2023

$32.99$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Big Sea: An Autobiography, Langston Hughes

The Big Sea: An Autobiography

Langston Hughes
Olayemi OlurinOlayemi Olurin

@___inCANdescent Have you read langston hughes autobiography the big sea? I really liked the portions about zora because it seems clear she was always broke, talented, and still the life of the party. And once anybody wronged her, including langston, she did not mess around gettin her lick back😂

Paperback, 1993

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Blackness: The Life and Times of an Unpopular People, T. Nicole Shockley

Blackness: The Life and Times of an Unpopular People

T. Nicole Shockley
Olayemi OlurinOlayemi Olurin

Just finished this book, recommend. Very honest and insightful telling of one Black man’s (@ijbailey) experiences in the south, receiving relentless pushback and disrespect as he covered issues on race, and reconciling what he was taught about his own Blackness w/ its real beauty https://t.co/2Cxff9c8Bq

Paperback, 2016

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book