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• My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

  Monet, Aja, 1987-

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  February 2024 Noname Book Club Selection. "My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters--the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

  Rodney, Walter,

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  January 2024 Noname Book Club selection. "[In] How Europe Underdeveloped Africa , Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Set Boundaries, Find Peace

  a Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

  Tawwab, Nedra Glover,

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  December 2023 Noname Book Club selection. "Licensed counselor, sought-after relationship expert, and one of the most influential therapists on Instagram Nedra Glover Tawwab demystifies this complex topic for today’s world. In a relatable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seven Days in June

  a Novel

  Williams, Tia, 1975-

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  December 2023 Noname Book Club selection. ""Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

  a History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017

  Khalidi, Rashid,

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  November 2023 Noname Book Club selection. "In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

  Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

  Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-

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  November 2023 Noname Book Club selection. "In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No More Police

  a Case for Abolition

  Kaba, Mariame,

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  October 2023 Noname Book Club selection. "Activists and police abolitionists Kaba (Abolition for the People) and Ritchie (Invisible No More) offer an impassioned and bold call to abolish police forces. According to the authors, the police…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Devil in a Blue Dress

  An Easy Rawlins Novel

  Mosley, Walter

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  October 2023 Noname Book Club selection. "Easy Rawlins, a tough World War II veteran and detective, is hired by a financier and gangster to locate Daphne Monet, a search that leads him from elegant boardrooms to the raucous jazz joints of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vagabonds!

  A Novel

  Osunde, Eloghosa

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  September 2023 Noname Book Club selection. "As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and rogue spirits. They are those who inhabit transient spaces, who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vagabonds!

  A Novel

  Osunde, Eloghosa

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  September 2023 Noname Book Club selection. "As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and rogue spirits. They are those who inhabit transient spaces, who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Panther Party

  a Graphic Novel History

  Walker, David, 1968-

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  August 2023 Noname Book Club selection!

• Assata Taught Me

  State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives

  Murch, Donna Jean,

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  August 2023 Noname Book Club selection!

• The Coldest Winter Ever

  a Novel

  Souljah, Sister

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  June 2023 Noname Book Club selection! "Ghetto-born, Winter is the young, wealthy daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family. Quick-witted, sexy, and business-minded, she knows and loves the streets like the curves of her own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Communist Manifesto

  Marx, Karl, 1818-1883,

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  June 2023 Noname Book Club selection! "The political tract in which Marx presented the core of his philosophy and revolutionary program, with an introduction analyzing its significance to the realities of today and to Marx's own times."

• All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

  An Autobiography

  Angelou, Maya

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  May 2023 Noname Book Club selection! "Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas is the rollicking, dramatic story of Maya Angelou's entry into show business, and her tour through Europe and Africa with the talented cast of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

  Angelou, Maya

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  May 2023 Noname Book Club selection! "Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas is the rollicking, dramatic story of Maya Angelou's entry into show business, and her tour through Europe and Africa with the talented cast of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Elite Capture

  How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)

  Táíwò, Olúfẹ́mi O.

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  April 2023 Noname Book Club selection. ""Identity politics" is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Elite Capture

  How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

  Táíwò, Olúfẹ́mi O.

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  April 2023 Noname Book Club selection. ""Identity politics" is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Elite Capture

  How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

  Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

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  April 2023 Noname Book Club selection. ""Identity politics" is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Temple of My Familiar

  Walker, Alice

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  March 2023 Noname Book Club selection. "Three couples, two in crisis, talk about themselves and reconstruct the missing pieces of the past and in the end, they deeply affect one another."