Book Club
Through our commitment to safety and respect for Black people we are exploring books, written by black authors, to continue learning about the strength and excellence within the Black community. We encourage you to buy your books from black or POC bookstores (support our businesses) and carve our the time to read them. We are all busy people, and understand it’s hard to read a book on top of everything else we do. So, we will also provide resources to listen or view, that can help you with some of the content along the way.
The goal of the Right to Breathe Book Club discussions are to grow our community. We believe that happens when we learn together, when we introduce ourselves to new ideas, when we challenge those ideas with our lived experiences. In order for that to happen, we need you to join us.
Please join us the last Thursday of the month for an hour of community time.
July-August 2022
Hey fam, it’s time for our first book club meeting. We are reading “An Abolitionist’s Handbook” by Patrisse Cullors.
You may consider supplementing the reading with:
Nikkita Oliver interviewing author Patrisse Cullors about the book.
You also want to go ahead and order our next book: The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning by Resmaa Menakem We will be discussing this book in September.
September-November 2022
This month we are making our way through another great book by Resmaa Menakem, famous for his book “My Grandmother’s Hands”. This month we are reading his book The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning.
Short on time or want to supplement your reading consider: