Black History Month Book Club Discussion - Northern Wake Campus

Black History Month Book Club Discussion | Wednesday, Feb. 28 | 2PM - 3PM | Scott Northern Wake Campus

Join us in the library to discuss "The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song" by Henry Lewis Gates, Jr.  with friends at our Scott Northern Wake Campus. We will meet at 2 p.m. in the Learning Commons (Library, 1st Floor) to discuss the book and enjoy refreshments. All are welcome!

Please register to receive your free copy of the book, 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.