Ending Black Oppression and Celebrating Black Dignity with Alencia Johnson

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Your Life Is the Assignment: Jen Hatmaker Solo Episode

Description:For twenty years, one question has followed Jen everywhere she goes: what am I supposed to be doing with my life? It comes in the comments, the voicemails, the line after every event. And for a long time, Jen answered it like a career question, as if somewhere out the ...  Show more

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Description:Jodi Picoult is back, and she brought her thirtieth novel with her.If you have been in a book club at any point in the last thirty years, you know the name. Forty million copies in print. Thirty four languages. And, as of this year, the fourth most banned author in Am ...  Show more

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