Monday, Feb 28, 7:00 pm – Join us to read and discuss non-fiction on a variety of topics in social justice. Meets monthly on the 3rd or 4th Monday. You are welcome to attend for some or all of our monthly sessions. Sign up to receive the ZOOM link via email. Ages 16+. Copies of the book are available at the library.
Our February selection is: Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude
Begin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America’s ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. In these brilliant pages, Glaude finds hope and guidance in Baldwin as he mixes biography with history, memoir, and analysis of our current moment to reveal the painful cycle of Black resistance and white retrenchment. Begin Again is a searing exploration of the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America.