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

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 Age of Phillis by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

The Age of Phillis by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday April 10, 2021 over Z...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump

Book Discussion of Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Sept. 1...

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

Book Discussion of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series resumed on Saturday Dec. 5th. There were 13 of us on the session. This book: Stamped: Ra...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion met over Zoom on Saturday June 2, 2022. There were ten of us on the call and we discussed Mitche...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

ULEBDS :Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday Oct. 5th. Thirteen of us met here at the Wilson Library for...

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

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

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued via Zoom during the COVID 19 shutdown! Eleven us met on a Zoom conference a...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday Nov. 23, 2019. Nine of us met and all agreed that this was a hard ...

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

Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo

eleven of us met Saturday Sept. 10 to discuss Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo. I started the discussion by asking the group: Did you just love...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Brother by David Chariandy

Brother by David Chariandy Book Discussion of Brother by David Chariandy The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

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

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued with Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower , a science fiction ...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana parrish where the people live on the same plantations that they had lived as slaves one...

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

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday June 26 th with a lively unpacking of Such a Fun Age by Kiley Rei...

Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

30.11.2022

Parable of the Sower and My Monticello

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday May 14th with a discussion of both Parable of the Sower by Octavia ...

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

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas 2023

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

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

Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Everybody's Son by Thrity Umrigar

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

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

The Age of Phillis by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump

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

Book Discussion of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You

Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

ULEBDS :Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

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

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton

Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo

Brother by David Chariandy

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

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

Assata: An Autobiography

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Parable of the Sower and My Monticello

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

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