Once again, we are using Zoom for the book group meeting.

To RSVP, email Beth Livoti, llivoti@comcast.net or (415) 892-1043. Beth will send out the
invitation and Zoom link.

The two books being discussed this month add insight and dimension
to the protests around the country and how they came about. Heavy: An American Memoir by
Kiese Laymon is a powerful and provocative memoir. Laymon writes eloquently and honestly
about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in
Jackson, Mississippi. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, many in the
African American community remain trapped in a subordinate status--much like their
grandparents before them. Former litigator turned legal scholar Michelle Alexander
provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America.