Monday Night Book Group @ Mount Pleasant Library

315 Academy Avenue,Providence RI 02908

27 February, 2023

Description

About the groupJoin us on the third Monday of every month from 6:30pm to 7:30pm to discuss the book of the month (meetings will be rescheduled in the event of holidays). For readers who enjoy exploring a wide variety of non fiction titles. Copies of the book will be available for patrons at the library. This month we are reading and discussing When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bendele. Didn't like the book or didn't read it? Still join us to take part in the conversation and to learn about next month's meeting! View a sneak-peak of our up-coming meeting dates, below. Do you have books you have been meaning to read? Recommend them to the group! Click on the link below to recommend your titles and we can discuss them at the next meeting! Book Recommendation Form About this month's selectionA poetic and powerful memoir about what it means to be a Black woman in America—and the co-founding of a movement that demands justice for all in the land of the free. Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the prejudice and persecution Black Americans endure at the hands of law enforcement. For Patrisse, the most vulnerable people in the country are Black people. Deliberately and ruthlessly targeted by a criminal justice system serving a white privilege agenda, Black people are subjected to unjustifiable racial profiling and police brutality. In 2013, when Trayvon Martin’s killer went free, Patrisse’s outrage led her to co-found Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. Condemned as terrorists and as a threat to America, these loving women founded a hashtag that birthed the movement to demand accountability from the authorities who continually turn a blind eye to the injustices inflicted upon people of Black and Brown skin. Championing human rights in the face of violent racism, Patrisse is a survivor. She transformed her personal pain into political power, giving voice to a people suffering in equality and a movement fueled by her strength and love to tell the country—and the world—that Black Lives Matter. When They Call You a Terrorist is Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele’s reflection on humanity. It is an empowering account of survival, strength and resilience and a call to action to change the culture that declares innocent Black life expendable. Upcoming Meeting Dates(Subject to change) We will be picking titles for upcoming meetings during this event! March 20, 2023 April 17, 2023 Visit the library's other upcoming events here