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Nobody Told Me I am Black - The Series

Nobody Told Me I Am Black
A Three Book Series by K.A. Gilmore

K.A.Gilmore, Author, Educator, Speaker, Strategist
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Nobody Told Me I am Black:
Setting the Stage

Chapter One punches you in the nose. It begins by defining racism clearly and grounding it in history and data. From there, the book examines how belief systems are formed, how exceptionalism becomes survival strategy, and how structural data exposes what performance cannot erase.

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Nobody Told Me I am Black:
America the Beautiful
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America the Beautiful is not a celebration. The title is deliberate irony.

Moving from the Civil Rights era to modern protest, the book traces how capitalism, racism, and state power operate together. From Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X to Colin Kaepernick, from presidential policy swings to Nine Plus Minutes, it examines how patriotism is performed while inequity is preserved and who is blamed for the design.

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Nobody Told Me I am Black:
Barriers to Wealth

Barriers to Wealth examines the promise that education guarantees opportunity and asks a harder question: for whom. From public schools to colleges and HBCUs, this book interrogates the belief that higher educational attainment naturally leads to financial security. Black women, among the most highly educated groups in the country, remain economically vulnerable, often first laid off during downturns while disproportionately carrying single parent and multigenerational caregiving responsibilities. Through data, policy analysis, and lived experience, the myth of merit based mobility is tested against reality.

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