Events › Teen Book Club | Revolution In Our Time by Kekla Maoon

Teen Book Club at Grove Hall is a place to encourage students to read, to read books by authors of color, and to read banned books. Specifically, it is for teens in grades 7-12 of the 2024-2025 school year. We aim to build a sense of community and to give students something to look forward to outside of school reading. 

We have 2 meetings per book: Monday, January 13 and Monday, January 27. The first 10 teen attendees to join Teen Book Club get a free personal copy of the book to keep, Revolution in Our Time by Kekla Magoon 

"In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers' story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary socialist movement that drew thousands of members –– mostly women –– and became the target of one of the most sustained repression efforts ever made by the U.S. government against its own citizens. Revolution in Our Time puts the Panthers in the proper context of Black American history, from the first arrival of enslaved people to the Black Lives Matter movement of today. Kekla Magoon's eye-opening work invites a new generation of readers grappling with injustices in the United States to learn from the Panthers' history and courage, inspiring them to take their own place in the ongoing fight for justice."

Grove Hall Teen Book Club is made possible by Roxbury neighbor and partner, Frugal Bookstore https://frugalbookstore.net/

Frugal Bookstore

57 Warren Street

Roxbury, MA 02119

frugal_books@yahoo.com

For more information about the book, visit revolutioninourtime.com