Diedre Johnson

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    Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of my People

    by Perry, Imani

    April 23, 2025

    Call Number: 301.45096 P463-1

    Black and blue, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, Little Girl Blue, The Bluest Eye, A Patch of Blue—these are just a sampling of the expressions, books, song titles, and films that made up the soundtrack of Black lives in America. In Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, author Imani Perry explains how the color blue not only gave comfort and motivation to enslaved people but also continues to mean so much to so many. Early in the book, Perry describes the term "blue-black," a description of a skin tone that is dipped in a shade of... Read Full Review

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    From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir

    by Presley, Lisa Marie

    November 11, 2024

    Call Number: 789.14 P9344

    Reading From Here to the Great Unknown, the authorized memoir taken from Lisa Marie Presley's voice recordings with organization and narrative from her daughter, the actress Riley Keough, is an intimate look at rock and roll icon Elvis Presley and, for this writer, a little like revisiting the South. Although Lisa Marie (who died in January 2023) had long lived in Los Angeles, Hawaii, and even the UK since the long-ago days with her dad at Graceland, her... Read Full Review

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