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• Cornelius Eady: Brutal Imagination 2001

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    Eady , Cornelius: Brutal Imagination: Poems       Although this book is only slightly over 100...

• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby, 2003

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  Nine of us met on Saturday March 16 th to discuss Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby, published in...

• Never Far from Home by Bruce Jackson

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  Book Discussion of Never Far from Home Feb. 10, 2024   Fifteen of us met on Saturday Feb. 10th for our first book discussion of the...

• The Movement Made Us: A Father, A Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride by David J. Dennis Jr. in collaboration with David J. Dennis Sr.

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    Book Discussion of The Movement Made Us by David Dennis Jr. and David Dennis Sr.    Discussion date: December 30, 2023...

• Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain Ph.D.

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    Eight of us met on Saturday October 14 th to discuss Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America by...

• The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence Injustice and the American City

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    The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City by Nicholas Dawidoff      ...

• Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness by Laura Coates

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    Eleven of us met on Saturday July 15th to discuss Laura Coates' book, "Just Pursuit." The book consists of sixteen descriptive...

• New People by Danzy Senna

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• Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up by Remica Bingham-Risher

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    Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books and Questions That Grew Me Up by R emica Bingham-Risher 2022  ...

• Angela Davis: An Autobiography

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    Notes from Book Discussion Mar. 4, 2023   Angela Davis, an Autobiography ©1974, 1988, 2021  ...

• Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South

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    Book Discussion of Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly, with a...

• The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton

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    The Final Revival of Opal and Nev is a fictional oral history of the  interracial 1970s rock duo Opal Jewell and Nev...

• Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo

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    eleven of us met Saturday Sept. 10 to discuss Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo. I started the...

• Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

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    Book discussion of Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on...

• Assata: An Autobiography

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      Assata Shakur was accused of murdering a New Jersey State Trooper on May 2, 1973. Assata, herself, was shot in that...

• Parable of the Sower and My Monticello

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   The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday May 14th with a discussion of both Parable of the Sower by Octavia...

• Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith

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     The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series met at the Wilson Library on Saturday, Aprl 2nd. We discussed ...

• Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

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  The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion met over Zoom on Saturday June 2, 2022. There were ten of us on the call and we discussed...

• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

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    The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday June 26 th with a lively unpacking of Such a Fun Age by...

• Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke

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    Ten of us in person plus two more over Zoom met on Saturday Oct. 30 to discuss Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke. Bluebird...

• Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump

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    Book Discussion of Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump   The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series...

• Everybody's Son by Thrity Umrigar

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    The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Aug. 7, 2021 in a hybrid set-up! Six of us met in person at the...

• The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

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    Notes from Book Discussion May 22, 2021   The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in...

• The Age of Phillis by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

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   The Age of Phillis by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers  The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday April 10,...

• Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

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    The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday Oct. 17th. Eleven of us met over Zoom. This amazing book...