Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued with a conversation about the book Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time and Mine . We met on Saturday Jan. 11 and again on Monday Jan. 13. This was our first time having the same book discussion on the Monday after for those who couldn't make it on Saturday. The book is a collection of 12 essays written during the course of many years that have recently been published together as a loosely comprised memoir. The book begins with the author being stabbed in 1994 and all the health problems that have been the result of the stabbing. She, along with six others in a coffee shop, was randomly attacked by a stranger. Over the years since this incident, the author has attempted to tell the story of race, specifically how the stabbing of a Black woman by a white man can be used as a metaphor for the violence suffered by her ancestors by whites in this country.  Dr. Bernard is a prolif