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underground recommends...

Just Wanna Testify

Pearl Cleage

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

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...............Fail Up............ ... by Tavis Smiley

..Push Has Come To Shove. .by Dr. Steve Perry

underground books' book club
Jan. 21 Meeting - 12 noon
The New Jim Crow
By Michelle Alexander

Contrary to the rosy picture of race embodied in Barack Obama's political success and Oprah Winfrey's financial success, legal scholar Alexander argues vigorously and persuasively that [w]e have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration as a system of social control (More African Americans are under correctional control today... than were enslaved in 1850).

underground books' book club
........will meet Mar. 3, 2012 - 12 noon....... .possible book:
Life Is Short But Wide
By J. California Cooper

In language both spare and direct yet wondrously lyrical, "Life Is Short But Wide" is an irresistible story of family that proves one is never too old to chase dreams. Cooper's stories reveal a meticulous attention to the nuances of African-American life--"San Francisco Chronicle."