Good Meeting

Enjoyed our meeting, as usual, last Saturday afternoon. As revealed at the meeting, the book we'll be discussing on November 19, 2011 at our 5 p.m. meeting will be Ralph Richard Banks, Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone. It should really be interesting...

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TIME TO VOTE!

Here are the books, in alphabetical order, nominated for our November meeting. Please vote for no more than three (3) books:

Ralph Richard Banks, Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone

Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

Michael Dawson, Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies

Gerald Early, A Level Playing Field: African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports

Milan Ford, 83 Things I Wish the Black Church Would Stop Doing

Robin D. G. Kelley, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

Randall Kennedy, The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency

Ronald R. Sundstrom, The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice

TIME TO VOTE!

Here are the books, in alphabetical order, nominated for our November meeting. Please vote for no more than three (3) books:

Ralph Richard Banks, Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone

Michael Dawson, Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies

Gerald Early, A Level Playing Field: African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports

Robin D. G. Kelley, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

Randall Kennedy, The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency

Ronald R. Sundstrom, The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice

NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN

We're back in business next week, as we gather at UR on Saturday, September 17, room 500 in Ryland Hall at 5 p.m., to discuss Blonde Roots, by Bernardine Evaristo. I'm looking forward to it.

Our next meeting after that, on Saturday, November 19, will feature WIDE OPEN NON-FICTION, which means exactly that: no fiction, no poetry, no plays. Everything else is in the mix as a possibility.

Please nominate no more than two (2) books. Nominations will stay open until Wednesday night, then we'll vote on the nominations for the next book selection. If there's a tie---and only if there's a tie; even a one-vote margin is a legitimate victory---we'll break the tie by secret-ballot vote at the meeting.