Founder, Dr. Aimee Wiest.
Hosted at the Lewes Public Library
Please register to attend *either* In-Person or Online. You will receive a confirmation email within minutes of registering. If you do not receive an email from LibCal, check your spam filter. Or you call the library (302-645-2733) during business hours (M – Th from 10 AM to 2 PM, F from 10 AM to 5 PM, and Sat from 10 AM to 2 PM) and ask a staff person to check on your registration. DO NOT register again.
We recommend that you register for each meeting. Click here to register, and scroll down the page to the listing for Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice Book and Film Group. Click on the “Click and register” button and fill out the form provided.
Lewes Library will again host our meetings, both in person and via Zoom. See our upcoming Book & Film Group dates below and visit our facebook page for the latest updates.
2024 Titles
The SDARJ Book and Film Committee is delighted to announce selections for 2024.
January 23 | Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century by Jasmine Brown
February 27 | The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
March 26 | But Will You Love Me Tomorrow: An Oral History of the ‘60s Girl Groups by Laura Flam and Emily Sieu Liebowitz
April 23 | Origin (film) / Supplemental reading: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
May 28 | I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War on Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams
June 25 | Women of the Post: A Novel by Joshunda Sanders / Supplemental viewing: Six Triple Eight (film)
July 23 | Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
August 27 | I Am Not Your Negro (film) / Supplemental reading: Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
September 24 | Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether
October 22 | Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (film) / Supplemental reading: Make Me Rain: Poems and Prose by Nikki Giovanni
November 26 | The Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
December | no meeting
