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This is incredible. If more history was taught this way I think so many more people would be history buffs. Well researched and fully engaging.

I really enjoyed this.

"If Ida B Wells had one gift, it was that she was born with what scientists now identify as the genetic marker IDGAF. Wells' uncompromising stance combined with her inability to compromise on even the slightest bit of racism and discrimination is what made her one of the fiercest truth tellers in the history of America."

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I am about 40 pgs away from completing Light/uncommon stars SO good!
I am listening to the tagged on audio, I wish my history classes were taught like this in school!
#BookGoal is to finish my last 2 #WomensPrizeForFiction short list reads they both look incredible but very heavy, if I can get through them next week will be much lighter reads.

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I have the tagged on audio for this week,
I am already a few pages into each of these. I wasn't too interested in Uncommon Stars beginning then 20 pages in we meet donut shop aliens and now I am all in 😍
Thunderclap is a Women's Prize long list for non-fiction I am struggling with it, but the book is very pretty great quality pages and photos of the paintings she talks about - recommend the physical book if it is on your list.

You 💯% need to read this book. Happily I went the audio route because this is narrated by the author who hosts the acclaimed podcast theGrio. It is an exceptional look back at American history that is personal and powerful. 🇺🇸

Nikki Haley needs to read this book! Even though Mr.Harriot sometimes uses humor to get his point across, this book is a serious look how the whitewashed history lessons of our youth do us a great disservice on understanding systemic racism, understanding how America was really made on the labor of others, and how laws & lawlessness were aimed at black Americans post slavery. A complicated & important history everyone should read.

US history has always been told through a white lens. Harriot changes that by telling it again, this time through a black lens. It‘s brilliantly done, including weaving humor throughout (as you might guess from the title), and balancing lighter tones with some of the darker bits. Outstanding.

Required reading for all americans. Educational, eye opening, entertaining, and humbling. So glad I read this book. 4.5 🌟