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Starlette Thomas Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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The raceless gospel extends a daily altar call but does not offer a post- racial deliverance. I create mourners’ benches where you can do the work.

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Book Cover for: The Evidence of Things Not Seen, James Baldwin

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

James Baldwin
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Reading James Baldwin’s The Evidence of Things Not Seen while thinking about my next column and thinking about Brother Jordan Neely and thinking about the media’s depiction of him. Baldwin writes, “They are not suspending judgment. They are creating judgment: ours.”

Paperback, 2023

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Jesus and the Disinherited, Howard Thurman

Jesus and the Disinherited

Howard Thurman
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So remember when I said that I had received THE BEST gift EVER from @GFMediaOrg, a signed copy of Howard Thurman’s Footprints of a Dream? And then Pastor Aaron Tinch (@WatchTinch) gifted me an autographed copy of Jesus and the Disinherited?

Paperback, 1996

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The History of White People, Nell Irvin Painter

The History of White People

Nell Irvin Painter
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“[M]any Americans cling to race as the unschooled cling to superstition.” - Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People

Paperback, 2011

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin
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“If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it brings must be borne.” | James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Paperback, 1992

$14.00$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, Frederick Douglass

Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself

Frederick Douglass
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From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) #racelessgospel https://t.co/XdbWW5cr9f

Paperback, 2014

$6.99$3.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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