[Hybrid] Just the Facts: the Nonfiction Only Book Club - Four Hundred Souls: by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

This month we will discuss:

Four Hundred Souls: a Community History of African America, 1619-2019

by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

"A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain, editor of The North Star. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines -- historians and artists, journalists and novelists--each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period to create a dynamic multivoiced single-volume history of black people in America".

Please feel free to join us. We ask that you read at least 200 pages of the book if you wish to participate in the discussion.

New members are always welcome! All of our meetings are hybrid so you can join us in person at the Johnson Public Library or via Zoom. Email kathryn.cannarozzi@hackensack.bccls.org for Zoom information.

Questions? Contact Kate Cannarozzi, (201) 343-4169, kathryn.cannarozzi@hackensack.bccls.org