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