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Minor Black Figures

by Brandon Taylor

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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins

by Barbara Demick (Goodreads Author)

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Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People – The National Book Award Winner's Cultural Meditation on Race, Blues, and Identity

by Imani Perry

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The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President's Black Family by Bettye Kearse

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Gramps explained that he believed racism made the black community more cohesive and helped its people see what everyone deserved and should work toward. “And,” he told the children, “when we stick to it, we get it. Maybe it’s hard to ...more

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“My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.”
― Richard M. Rorty

tags: atheism, atheist, civilization, descendants, future, global-civilization, hope, idealism, law, love, perfection, secular, secularist, sense-of-holy, utopia

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“Shane wasn’t far removed from the man he’d been when he passed out on Gayle King’s shoulder as Jesse Williams announced that he’d won the 2009 NAACP Award for Outstanding Fiction.”
― Tia Williams, Seven Days in June

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“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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“It was all a fine line in the South, she’d say. Given that those sinning, raping plantation owners had both white babies and Black babies, everyone was six degrees from being one or the other. Which was what scared southern white people the most.”
― Tia Williams, Seven Days in June

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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more

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A NEW BOOK CLUB: THIS IS THE MOST RELAXED BOOK CLUB YOU'VE EVER BEEN IN! The goal is to come together, read a few killer books, listen to opinions tha ...more

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This book club reads literature by or about African Americans and the African Diaspora in all genres: including fiction, non-fiction, mystery, romance ...more

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