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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.

2024
Monday, January 8 @ 6:30 PM - Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Monday, February 12 @ 6:30 PM - The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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
Monday, September *25* @ 6:30 PM: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, A Black Family Keepsake, by Tiya Miles [DATE CHANGE]
*Tuesday*, October *10* @ 11 AM: South to America: a Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry [DATE CHANGE]
Monday, November 13 @ 6:30 PM: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
December: No meeting!
 
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 PMThe 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 PMThick And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom 
Monday, October 10 @ 6:30 PMPresumed 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
MondayMay 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

Deluge
By: Markley, Stephen
Do-Over
By: Painter, Lynn
Toad
By: Dunn, Katherine
Villa
By: Hawkins, Rachel
Winterland
By: Meadows, Rae
Last Love Note
By: Grey, Emma
We All Want Impossible Things
By: Newman, Catherine
Twist of a Knife
By: Horowitz, Anthony

Hardcover Non-Fiction

My Effin Life
By: Lee, Geddy
World Within a Song
By: Tweedy, Jeff
Upcycled Self
By: Trotter, Tariq
Sailing the Graveyard Sea
By: Snow, Richard
Class
By: Land, Stephanie
Energy Follows Thought
By: Ritz, David
Night Parade
By: Lin, Jami Nakamura
Path to Paradise
By: Wasson, Sam
After Eden
By: Chasteen, John Charles

Hardcover Fiction

Cross Out
Author: Patterson, James
Same Bed Different Dreams
Author: Park, Ed
Mystery Guest
Author: Prose, Nita
One Last Stop Collectors Edition
Author: McQuiston, Casey
System Collapse
Author: Wells, Martha
So Late in the Day
Author: Keegan, Claire
Before We Say Goodbye
Author: Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
Tatami Time Machine Blues
Author: Morimi, Tomihiko
Little Liar
Author: Albom, Mitch