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The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture by Courtney Thorsson

Saturdays, 12-130pm: 11/29, 12/7*, 12/13, 12/20, & 12/27
The Bronx Museum, 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St.
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11/29: Free book giveaways —one per person.
*12/7 (Sunday): Introduction & Ch 1, pgs 1-42
12/13: Ch 2 & 3, pgs 43-104
12/20: Ch 4-6, pgs 105-171:: Sisterhood member Patricia Spears Jones will join the in-person conversation
12/27: Ch 7-Appendix 2, pgs 172-end
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Tuesdays, 7-830pm on Zoom: 12/2, 12/9, 12/16*, & 12/23
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12/2: Introduction & Ch 1, pgs 1-42
12/9: Ch 2 & 3, pgs 43-104
*12/16: Ch 4-6, pgs 105-171: Courtney Thorsson will join the Zoom conversation
12/23: Ch 7-Appendix 2, pgs 172-end

One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and talk about their work. Calling themselves “The Sisterhood,” the group—which also came to include Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Margo Jefferson, and others—would get together once a month over the next two years, creating a vital space for Black women to discuss literature and liberation.

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Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
This intensely personal and political autobiography belies the fearsome image of JoAnne Chesimard long projected by the media and the state. With wit and candor, Assata Shakur recounts the experiences that led her to a life of activism and portrays the strengths, weaknesses, and eventual demise of Black and White revolutionary groups at the hands of government officials.
In-person: 1/3, 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31
Zoom: 1/6, 1/13, 1/20, 1/27

Loca by Alejandro Heredia
Loca follows one daring year in the lives of young people living at the edge of their own patience and desires. With expansive grace, it reveals both the grueling conditions that force people to migrate and the possibility of friendship as home when family, nations, and identity groups fall short.
In-person: 2/7, 2/14, 2/21, 2/28, 3/7
Zoom: 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/3

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Set in Louisiana, this novel is set against the backdrop of a small Cajun community during the Jim Crow Era. Jefferson, a young black man, is accused and convicted of murder for perpetrating a shoot-out in a liquor store, which left three men killed. Being the sole survivor of a crime that occurred unwittingly, Jefferson is sentenced to death.
In-person: 3/14, 3/21, 3/28, 4/4, 4/11
Zoom: 3/17, 3/24, 3/31, 4/7