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Racial Justice Book Club

Who We Are:

Formed in 2020, club members introduce a book they’d like to read, or if accessible to all, a video or audio pertinent to the subject. We all vote on a favorite selection a month in advance. 

What We Read:

After reading/listening to book (or watching movie, podcast) about race and/or multicultural issues, we discuss what stands out, or how it impacts one’s perspective. Although our thoughts are primarily on the state of racial justice in the U.S. today, we welcome all points of view.

When We Meet:

Second Monday of each month at 6:30 PM CTS. For now, our meetings will be virtual on Zoom. Check for our book selection at https://www.bookcellarinc.com/calendar 

How To Join:

Contact JD at racialjusticebookclub@outlook.com with your email address for invite link.

2023
Monday, January 9 @ 6:30 PM- The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Monday, February 13 @ 6:30 PM- American Psychosis: An Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy by David Corn
Monday, March 13 @ 6:30 PM- How The Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith
Monday, April 10 @ 6:30 PM- Wildland:  The Making of America’s Fury, by Evan Osnos
MAY: There will not be a meeting of the book club this May.
Monday, June 12 @ 6:30 PM- Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Monday, July 10 @ 6:30 PM: Recitatif by Toni Morison
Monday, August 14 @ 6:30 PM: White Too Long: The Legacy Of White Supremacy In American Christianity by Ropert P. Jones
 
 
2022
Monday, March 28 @ 6:30 PM- The 1619 Project by Nicole Hannah-Jones (Ch. 1-6)
Monday, April 11 @ 6:30 PM- The 1619 Project by Nicole Hannah-Jones (Ch. 7-13)
Monday, May 9  @ 6:30 PM- The 1619 Project by Nicole Hannah-Jones (Ch. 14-18)
Monday, June 13 @ 6:30 PM- Negroland by Margo Jefferson (RESCHEDULED FOR JUNE 20TH DUE TO WEATHER)
Monday, July 11 @ 6:30 PM-  The Three Mothers by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Monday, August 8 @ 6:30 PM-  South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War by Alice L. Baumgartner
Monday, September 12 @ 6:30 PM-  Thick And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom 
Monday, October 10 @ 6:30 PM-  Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights by Erwin Chemerinsky
Monday, November 14 @ 6:30 PM- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
 (No meeting is planned for December).
 

 2021

Monday, October 11 @ 6:30 PM - Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner
Monday, September 20 @ 6:30 PM - On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
Monday, August 9, @ 6:30 PM - The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGee 
Monday, July 12 @ 6:30 PM - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdich
Monday, June 15 @ 6:30 PM - Philly D.A by PBS Independent Lens series
Monday, May 10 @ 6:30 PM - Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkerson and Kate Pickett
Monday, April 12 @ 6:30 PM - My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
Monday, March 8 @ 6:30 PM -Amend: The Fight for America series on Netflix
Monday, February 8 @ 6:30 PM -The Violence Inside Us by Chris Murphy
Monday, January 11 @ 6:30 PM- You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar

 

2020

Monday, December 20 @ 6:30 PM- Caste:The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Monday, November 9 @ 6:30 PM - A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (Ch. 11-20)
Tuesday, September 29 @ 7 PM - A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (Ch. 1-10)

Monday, August 31 @ 7 PM - Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side by Eve L. Ewing
Monday, July 27 @ 7 PM - Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Paperback Fiction

Lore Olympus Volume Four
By: Smythe, Rachel
Luda
By: Morrison, Grant
Carrie Soto Is Back
By: Jenkins Reid, Taylor
House Across the Lake
By: Sager, Riley
Look Closer
By: Ellis, David
Cult Classic
By: Crosley, Sloane
Latecomer
By: Korelitz, Jean Hanff
Family Remains
By: Jewell, Lisa
Fairy Tale
By: King, Stephen

Hardcover Non-Fiction

Best Minds
By: Rosen, Jonathan
Mott Street
By: Chin, Ava
Pathogenesis
By: Kennedy, Jonathan
Ghost Forest
By: King, Greg
Why Fathers Cry at Night
By: Alexander, Kwame
Pageboy
By: Page, Elliot
Arrangements in Blue
By: Key, Amy
Thinning Blood
By: Myers, Leah
Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
By: Potts, Monica

Hardcover Fiction

Wishing Game
Author: Shaffer, Meg
Wind Knows My Name
Author: Allende, Isabel
Memory of Animals
Author: Fuller, Claire
Deep as the Sky Red as the Sea
Author: Chang-Eppig, Rita
All the Sinners Bleed
Author: Cosby, S a
Killingly
Author: Beutner, Katharine
Lady Tans Circle of Women
Author: See, Lisa
Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style
Author: Rudnick, Paul
And Then He Sang a Lullaby
Author: Kayode, Ani