Black History Month Book Club

Black History Month Book Club | Feb. 1 - Feb. 29 | All Campuses 

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Student Activities (SA) is sponsoring a book club in honor of Black History Month. We will be reading, "The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. SA will distribute FREE copies of the book. At the end of the month, we will gather in person and online to discuss the book. Additional details to come.

Please register to receive your copy here. 

About the book:

For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues.