Summary: Approximately 70 years of slavery from the 1870s to the 1940s have largely been unknown or ignored. Part of what has been vital for me to recognize as I read history is earlier examples of current problems. There may not be a direct connection with those similar issues, but we need to acknowledge that … Read more
Summary: Two essays from 1963. Since I saw the documentary I am Not Your Negro, about James Baldwin, I have been wanting to read more of him. This is my second book this year and I am planning on reading at least one of his novels before the end of the year. I knew that … Read more
Summary: Loosely structured as a sermon which calls White Christian America to repentance and change. After reading James Baldwin’s Notes on a Native Son I decided to look for a modern author’s take and found Michael Eric Dyson’s Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America. I was so impressed that I immediately picked … Read more
Summary: A collection of literary and personal essays written in the mid 1950s by James Baldwin. I recently went to see the documentary I am Not Your Negro. After watching that very good documentary I finally picked up Notes of a Native Son, which I purchased a while ago but I have not read. The … Read more
This review was written by Bookwi.se Contributor Vikki Huisman. Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse with over two decades of experience. During a normal checkup on a newborn boy, Ruth is abruptly reassigned to another patient. The baby’s parents are white supremacists who do not want Ruth touching their child. Ruth is African … Read more
Takeaway: Justice requires working systems. Part of working systems is adequate defense and reasonable sentencing. No one that I know that has read this has rated it less than 5 stars. Bryan Stevenson is the head of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery Alabama. Somewhat similar to the International Justice Mission that focuses on bringing … Read more
Summary: A beautiful, poetic memoir of being Black in America. Without question, this is one of the best memoirs I have ever read. I know part of my love of it is because Danté Stewart read the audiobook with his beautiful voice. Shoutin’ in the Fire is a book of lyrical, poetic writing, and I … Read more
Summary: The recounting of five White backlashes to Black gains in the country. White Rage is not particularly long. It does not talk about everything, but instead gives an overview of five historical movements. We all know the history of the the events before these movements of White Rage, but the importance of Carol Anderson’s … Read more
Summary: A short survey of the problems and history of race within the Christian church in America. Christianity and Race in America is a modified lecture intended to be a brief introduction to why Race is an important issue to the Christian Church in the United States. At this point, I find it a bit … Read more