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Kiara Imani, Therapy Isn’t Just For White People

Sincere and inspiring, soulful and uplifting, ‘Therapy Isn’t Just For White People’ is a brilliant debut memoir chronicling Kiara Imani’s compelling journey to understand the racial trauma experienced by many Black people in America and the underlying effect it has on Black mental health. A journey of understanding, healing, empathy, self-love, and taking control of her personal narrative about what it means to be Black in America in the 21st century.

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Sam Sumpter Live Book Launch Event, ‘Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone’

An amazing audience showed up for a fun and lively book launch event featuring author Sam Sumpter and her book, ‘Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone’. The event featured host Rich Weiss and a special music performance by Atlas Engine. An amazing, lively conversation about the Brooklyn music community from the unique perspective of the bands who live and love Brooklyn.

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Bands Do BK Inside-The-Book Studio Sessions: Interviews and Performances with Featured Artists A Very Special Episode

Featured Episode: A Very Special Episode. Following the release of Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone, author Sam Sumpter sits down at the Radio Free Brooklyn studio with a selection of featured bands for a series of short and sweet (and frequently funny) interviews covering some of the key themes featured in the book. Featuring Tea Eater, A Very Special Episode, and Mary Shelley.

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Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone

In Bands do BK, Sam Sumpter explores Brooklyn from the unique perspective of the bands who live it and love it. Equal parts oral history, guidebook, and music-fan memoir, Sumpter shares behind-the-scenes stories, sound bites, and recommendations on places to visit from hundreds of featured interviewed bands—a hot slice of New York City indie chronicling the people and places that define it.

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Real Talk! Live Video Discussion Series With Author Kiara Imani and Guests, Featuring Therapy Isn't Just For White People

Each week special guests and friends joined author Kiara Imani on Instagram LIVE for REAL TALK! A fun, engaging, five-part book discussion series covering wide-ranging topics from Imani’s debut memoir, Therapy Isn’t Just For White People. The series included over a dozen guests and featured lively and insightful topic discussions. Watch the entire REAL TALK! discussion series on Lit Riot Press.

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Piccolo Is Black: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Pop Culture

Part homage to the characters Calhoun identified with and loved, part celebration of the pop culture—television, movies, music, video games—that influenced his childhood, Piccolo Is Black: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Pop Culture is an honest, thought-provoking, and often hilarious coming-of-age memoir that celebrates Black identity in America.

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Bands Do BK Inside-The-Book Studio Sessions: Interviews and Performances with Featured Artists Tea Eater

Featured Episode: Tea Eater. Following the release of Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone, author Sam Sumpter sits down at the Radio Free Brooklyn studio with a selection of featured bands for a series of short and sweet (and frequently funny) interviews covering some of the key themes featured in the book. Featuring Tea Eater, A Very Special Episode, and Mary Shelley.

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