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Upcoming Social Justice Book Club Titles
June 10, 2018The Albright Memorial Library’s Social Justice Book Club has selected the next three titles for discussion.
Join us to discuss : The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas on Monday, July 9th at 6:30 pm
“Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, Angie Thomas’s searing debut about an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances addresses issues of racism and police violence with intelligence, heart, and unflinching honesty. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.”– Publisher.
Place the book on hold- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Join us to discuss : Hope In The Dark by Rebecca Solnit on Monday, September 10, 2018 at 6:30 pm
“With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next.”
Place the book on hold- Hope In The Dark by Rebecca Solnit
Join us to discuss : The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead on Monday, November 12, 2018 @ 6:30 pm
“A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
