Join me for upcoming book reviews mostly inspired from the Breaking Brown Book Club. Please support your local independent ADOS owned bookstores. See the list here --> AALBC
July 26 They were her property : White women were Slave Owners int he American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. This book dispels the myth of the innocence and non-complicity of white women during America overt chattel slavery past. As matter of fact owning slaves and being groomed to manage these people by their family was the greatest economic and power equalizer between white men and women in marriage, society and business. Metro Detroiters please support your local independent book providers.
Aug 26 'The Color of Law: Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated American', by Richard Rothstein describes how it is the government who chooses winners and losers in America and it is through policy and legislation that a group of people are uplifted or destroyed.
Sept 28 Where do we go from here: Chaos or Community by Dr. Martin Luther King. The question was Economic Justice. After social justice was one, King says many of his allies walked away from giving black Americans economic equality.