Turning Pages: July 2025 Book Suggestions

“It is only when Africans stand up against insults to their integrity and cultural heritage as men and women, will they eventually control their destiny.” Yosef A.A. ben-Jochannan

• "Best Man: Unfinished Business (novel)" by Malcolm D. Lee

  
  

• "Black Girl Gardening: Empowering Stories and Garden Wisdom" by Amber Grossman

  
  

• "Combee: Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War" by Edda L. Field’s-Black

  
  

• "Death of the Author (novel)" by Nnedi Okorafo

  
  

• "Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution" by Peniel E. Joseph

  
  

• "Grandpa, Are There Bugs in Heaven (children)" by Vincent W. Phillips

  
  

• "Sky Full of Elephants (novel)" by Cebo Campbell

  
  

• "Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden" by Camille T. Dungy

  
  

• "Why Does Everything Have To Be About Race: 25 Arguments That won’t Go Away" by Keith Boykin