Book Discussion of They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery. On the day of our discussion, there was still snow on the ground from a major winter storm and it was only eleven degrees. In spite of the freezing weather and difficult driving conditions, four of us managed to meet. The one criticism we all shared was the “jumping around in time” in an otherwise great book. Our facilitator stated that the purpose of the book was to explain how activism of this generation started, an accounting of how millennials got involved. Fortunately for us, one of our members had shared a podcast from the Enoch Pratt Free Public Library in Baltimore, MD. The podcast series is called Writers Live and the particular podcast featured Wesley Lowery recorded Mar. 7, 2017. http://www.prattlibrary.org/booksmedia/podcasts/index.aspx?id=6951 In the podcast, Mr. Lowery relates that the purpose of his book is to tell the s
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.