Join us in 2024 for the Book & Film Discussions
More about the Books & Films we will discuss in 2024
JANUARY 23rd
Non Fiction: Twice as Hard: Black Women who Fought to Become Physicians
(2023, Beacon Press)
Author: Jasmine Brown
This was a 2023 History Book Festival selection
FEBRUARY -27th
Fiction: House of Eve
(2023, Simon & Schuster)
Author: Sadeqa Johnson
Event notes: We will meet on Tuesday February 27 for those who receive the book at the 2/8/23
MARCH 26th
Non Fiction: But Will You Love Me Tomorrow: An Oral History of the ‘60s Girl Groups
(2023, Hachette Books)
Author: Laura Flam and Emily Sieu Liebowitz
Event notes: Lois Powell, Local Resident and member of The Chantels, guest speaker
APRIL 23rd
Film + Book: ORIGIN
Released 11/2023 Caste (2020, Random House)
Directed by: Ava DuVernay + Isabelle Wilkerson
Notes: Film is on HBO Max as of 11/25
MAY 28th
Non Fiction: I Saw Death Coming
(2023, Bloomsbury Publishing)
Author: Kidada Williams
Notes: 2023 History Book Festival selection
JUNE 25th
Book + Film: Women of the Post :
(2023, Park Row)
Author: Joshunda Sanders
Film: Six Triple Eight
JDirector: Tyler Perry
Notes: 2023 History Book Festival selection
Film expected on Netflix
JULY 23rd
Fiction: Take My Hand
(2022, Berkley)
Author: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
AUGUST 27th
Film + Book: I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO Notes of a Native Son
Author: Raoul Peck + James Baldwin
Notes: Honoring James Baldwin’s 100th birth anniversary
SEPTEMBER 24th
Fiction: Daddy Was a Numbers Runner
(first published 1970)
Author: Louise Merriweather
OCTOBER 22nd
Film + Book GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT +
Make Me Rain: Poems and Prose
(2020, William Morrow)
Joe Brewer & Michelle Stevenson; Nikki Giovanni
NOVEMBER 26th
Non Fiction: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, The Groveland Boys,
(2012, Harper)
Author: Gilbert King
DECEMBER
No event.
