Community for Understanding and Hope Book Group 2011-2012
Co-sponsored by the Kirkwood Public Library
All discussions begin at 7:00pm and end at approximately 8:30pm
Check for announcements and updates at www.cfuh.org or the Webster-Kirkwood
Times
Thursday,
October 27, 2011
Never Been a Time: the 1917 race
riot that sparked the civil rights movement
by Harper Barnes
Leader: Deb
Lavender Location: Adams Hall,
Eliot Chapel
Thursday,
December 1, 2011
Native Stranger: a black American's journey into the
heart of Africa by Eddy
L. Harris
Leader: Gretchen
Curry Location: Meeting Room,
Kirkwood Public Library
Thursday,
January 26, 2012
Sister Citizen: shame, stereotypes, and Black women
in America by Melissa
V. Harris-Perry
Leader: Rebecca Wiederkehr Location:
Meeting Room, Kirkwood Public Library
Thursday,
February 23, 2012
Unbowed: a memoir by Wangari
Muta Maathai
Leader: Sue Stivers Location:
Meeting Room, Kirkwood Public Library
No discussion
in March 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
At the Dark End of the Street: black women, rape,and resistance:
a new history of the civil rights movement, from Rosa Parks to
the rise of Black power
by Danielle L. McGuire
Leader: Ann Cradock
Location: Meeting Room, Kirkwood Public Library
Thursday, May
24, 2012
Color Me English: thoughts about
migrations and belonging before and after 9/11 by Caryl
Phillips
Leader: Kayla
Vaughan Location: Meeting Room,
Kirkwood Public Library
Thursday, June
28, 2012
Miracle at St. Anna by Caryl
Phillips
Leader: Carmen Reid
Location: Meeting Room, Kirkwood
Public Library
Thursday, July
26, 2012
Searching for Whitopia: an
improbable journey to the heart of white America by
Rich Benjamin
Leader: Lee Potts Location: Meeting Room, Kirkwood
Public Library
Thursday,
August 23, 2012
killing rage: Ending Racism by bell
hooks
Leader: Kathy Lewis Location: Meeting Room, Kirkwood
Public Library
Thursday,
September 27, 2012
Annual book
selection and potluck meeting
Bring a friend, 3
book titles, and a dish to share
Location: TBA