One Book One Bronx - New Book Clubs at The Bronx Museum and Zambo Aroma

 

THIS JANUARY ONE BOOK, THREE LOCATIONS Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr., 232 pgs Each week, One Book One Bronx hosts restorative conversations related to gentrification, social justice, women's empowerment, criminal justice, and racial inequality. The book club reflects the borough's racial, economic, and gender demographics and builds bridges to engagement while (re)sparking a love of literature.  The book club is free and open to the public.  Begin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America's ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. Just as in Baldwin's "after times," argues Eddie S. Glaude Jr., when white Americans met the civil rights movement's call for truth and justice with blind rage and the murders of movement leaders, so in our moment were the Obama presidency and the birth of Black Lives Matter answered with the ascendance of Trump and the violent resurgence of white nationalism. REGISTER TODAY • Zambo Aroma, 3848 White Plains Rd at 221 St Thursdays, 7-8:30pm: 1/5*, 1/12, 1/19, 1/26, & 2/2 • The Bronx Museum, 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St. Saturday, 12-1:30pm: 1/7*, 1/14, 1/21, 1/28, & 2/4 The book discussion will take place in The Bronx Museum galleries as part of the exhibition Swagger and Tenderness: The South Bronx Portraits of John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres. • On Zoom Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, & 1/31 Choose the venue that fits your location and schedule. Free books are available to participants at Zambo Aroma and The Bronx Museum. Book club press release

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