The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series meets approximately once every six weeks at the Courtland S. Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library in New Haven, CT.

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series met at the Wilson Library on Saturday, Aprl 2nd. We discussed Ordinary Light by Tracy ...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Everybody's Son by Thrity Umrigar

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Aug. 7, 2021 in a hybrid set-up! Six of us met in person at the Wilson Libra...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday Oct. 17th. Eleven of us met over Zoom. This amazing book begins in ...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Lucille Clifton: good woman: poetry and a memoir 1969-1980

In honor of National Poetry Month, our selection for The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series is Good Woman: Poems and ...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev is a fictional oral history of the interracial 1970s rock duo Opal Jewell and Nev Charles. The journal...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke

Ten of us in person plus two more over Zoom met on Saturday Oct. 30 to discuss Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke. Bluebird Bluebird is t...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur was accused of murdering a New Jersey State Trooper on May 2, 1973. Assata, herself, was shot in that incident, yet she ...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

Notes from Book Discussion May 22, 2021 The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett ...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time and Mine

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued with a conversation about the book Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmoth...

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Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series - Books & Literature

Don't Cry for Me by Daniel Black

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

Cornelius Eady: Brutal Imagination 2001

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby, 2003

Never Far from Home by Bruce Jackson

The Movement Made Us: A Father, A Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride by David J. Dennis Jr. in collaboration with David J. Dennis Sr.

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain Ph.D.

The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence Injustice and the American City

Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness by Laura Coates

New People by Danzy Senna

Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up by Remica Bingham-Risher

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (Virtual Book Discussion)

The Age of Phillis by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

ULEBDS :Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

Citizen Outlaw: One Man's Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper by Charles Barber

Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

Book Discussion of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You

Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump

Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo

Parable of the Sower and My Monticello

Brother by David Chariandy

Elm City Lit Fest Podcast - The Significance of Black Literature and Bl...

Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith

Everybody's Son by Thrity Umrigar

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Lucille Clifton: good woman: poetry and a memoir 1969-1980

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton

Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke

Assata: An Autobiography

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time and Mine

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