BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The BAR - Brothers Also Read - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The BAR - Brothers Also Read X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://brothersalsoread.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The BAR - Brothers Also Read REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20210101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260321T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260321T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T152059 CREATED:20260205T200205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T200205Z UID:8380-1774099800-1774108800@brothersalsoread.com SUMMARY:The BAR Member Meeting - 3/21/2026 DESCRIPTION:From a celebrated author\, the thrilling sequel to The Parable of the Sower—a cautionary novel ahead of its time\, perfect for fans of The Broken Earth trilogy. \nIn 2032\, Lauren Olamina has survived the destruction and ruin of everything she knew. Her peaceful community based on her newly founded faith\, Earthseed\, provides refuge for outcasts facing persecution after the election of an ultra-conservative president. Under his rule\, Lauren’s colony—a minority religious faction led by a young Black woman—becomes a target for the president’s reign of terror and oppression. \nYears later\, Asha Vere reads the journals of a mother she never knew. As she searches for answers\, she struggles to reconcile with the legacy of a mother caught between her duty to her chosen family and her calling to lead humankind into a better future. \n“In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time\, Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable’ books may be unmatched.”—The New Yorker URL:https://brothersalsoread.com/event/the-bar-member-meeting-3-21-2026/ LOCATION:The LOVE Building\, 4731 Grand River Ave\, Detroit\, MI\, 48208\, United States CATEGORIES:Member ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://brothersalsoread.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/parable_of_the_talents.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T152059 CREATED:20260114T014351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T014351Z UID:8342-1768656600-1768665600@brothersalsoread.com SUMMARY:The BAR Member Meeting - 1/17/2026 DESCRIPTION:“In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time\, Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable’ books may be unmatched.”—The New Yorker \nFrom a celebrated\, award-winning author\, a modern classic about a young girl fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world\, perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Margaret Atwood. \nFifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father\, family\, and neighbors\, sheltered from the surrounding social chaos and anarchy caused by climate change and economic crisis. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk\, she suffers from hyperempathy—a debilitating sensitivity to others’ emotions. \nPrecocious and clear-eyed\, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny. \nIncludes a foreword by LeVar Burton and an afterword by N. K. Jemisin \nLauren’s story continues in The Parable of the Talents. URL:https://brothersalsoread.com/event/the-bar-member-meeting-1-17-2026/ LOCATION:The LOVE Building\, 4731 Grand River Ave\, Detroit\, MI\, 48208\, United States CATEGORIES:Member ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://brothersalsoread.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/parable_of_the_sower-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251115T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251115T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T152059 CREATED:20251112T042620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251112T043118Z UID:8303-1763213400-1763222400@brothersalsoread.com SUMMARY:The BAR Member Meeting DESCRIPTION:In this New York Times bestseller\, Elie Mystal offers a brilliant takedown of ten shocking pieces of legislation that continue to perpetuate hate\, racial bias\, injustice\, and inequality today-an urgent yet hopeful read for our current political climate \n“Mystal is a grassroots legal superhero\, and his superpower is the ability to explain to the masses in clear language the all-too-human forces at play behind the making of our laws.” –Michael Eric Dyson\, New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot StopIn Bad Law\, the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution reimagines what our legal system\, and society at large\, could look like if we could move past legislation plagued by racism\, misogyny\, and corruption. Through accessible yet detailed prose and trenchant wit\, Mystal argues that these egregiously awful laws–his “Bill of Wrongs”–continue to cause systematic and individual harm and should be repealed completely. \nBy exposing the flawed foundations of the rules we live by\, and through biting humor and insight\, Bad Law offers a crisp\, pertinent take on: \nabortion and the Hyde Amendment\, and the role federal funding\, or lack thereof\, has played in depriving women of necessary health and reproductive care \nimmigration and illegal reentry\, and the illusions that have been sold to us regarding immigration policy\, reform\, and whiteness at large \nvoter registration laws\, and how the right to vote has become a moral issue\, and ironically\, antidemocratic \ngun control and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act\, and the extreme yet obvious dangers of granting immunity to gun manufacturers \nBut\, as the man Samantha Bee calls “irrepressible and righteously indignant” and Matt Levine of Bloomberg Opinion calls “the funniest lawyer in America\,” points out\, these laws do not come to us from on high; we write them\, and we can and should unwrite them. In a fierce\, funny\, and wholly original takedown spanning all the hot-button topics in the country today\, one of our most brilliant legal thinkers points the way to a saner tomorrow. URL:https://brothersalsoread.com/event/the-bar-member-meeting-21/ LOCATION:The LOVE Building\, 4731 Grand River Ave\, Detroit\, MI\, 48208\, United States CATEGORIES:Member ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://brothersalsoread.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Bad-Law-Ten-Popular-Laws-That-Are-Ruining-America_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T152059 CREATED:20250817T093555Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250817T093555Z UID:8271-1758375000-1758384000@brothersalsoread.com SUMMARY:The BAR Member Meeting DESCRIPTION:“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty\, and separates the big people from the small of heart\, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.”—Zadie Smith \n\n\n \nOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century\, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature. URL:https://brothersalsoread.com/event/the-bar-member-meeting-19/ LOCATION:The LOVE Building\, 4731 Grand River Ave\, Detroit\, MI\, 48208\, United States CATEGORIES:Member ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://brothersalsoread.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God_91qvx7zE7YL._SL1500_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250719T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250719T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T152059 CREATED:20250719T092935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250817T093419Z UID:8268-1752931800-1752940800@brothersalsoread.com SUMMARY:The BAR Member Meeting DESCRIPTION:In a world where misinformation distorts the essence of manhood and societal expectations push men into emotional incarceration\, bestselling author and founder of the Cave of Adullam\, Jason Wilson\, offers a path to freedom.\n\n \n\nThe Man the Moment Demands will empower you to become the right man in every moment by embodying the ten characteristics of the comprehensive man: the Fighter\, the Provider\, the Leader\, the Lover\, the Nurturer\, the Gentleman\, the Friend\, the Husband\, the Father\, and the Son. With The Man the Moment Demands you’ll learn how to\n\n \n\n unpack the impact of your past and unlock the power to shape your future;\n \n embrace transparency and express the full spectrum of your emotions while maintaining self-control;\n \n evolve beyond the “alpha male” myth through example\, not intimidation; and\n \n answer the question “Who are you?” to strip away the facade and live authentically.\n\n \n\nThis is not just a transformative book; it’s a blueprint. A rite of passage for those ready to rise and rediscover what it truly means to be a man–authentically human. One that will empower you to be the man the moments demands.\n\n \n\nECPA BESTSELLER URL:https://brothersalsoread.com/event/the-bar-member-meeting-18/ LOCATION:The LOVE Building\, 4731 Grand River Ave\, Detroit\, MI\, 48208\, United States CATEGORIES:Member ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://brothersalsoread.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/The-Man-the-Moment-Demands.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T152059 CREATED:20250508T021550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250817T093126Z UID:8164-1747488600-1747497600@brothersalsoread.com SUMMARY:The BAR Member Meeting DESCRIPTION:From the governor of Maryland\, the “compassionate” (People)\, “startling” (Baltimore Sun)\, “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar\, decorated combat veteran\, White House Fellow\, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. \nThe chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his. \nIn December 2000\, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore\, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam\, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore. Wes just couldn’t shake off the unsettling coincidence\, or the inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper. After following the story of the robbery\, the manhunt\, and the trial to its conclusion\, he wrote a letter to the other Wes\, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been haunting him: Who are you? How did this happen? \nThat letter led to a correspondence and relationship that have lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits\, Wes discovered that the other Wes had had a life not unlike his own: Both had had difficult childhoods\, both were fatherless; they’d hung out on similar corners with similar crews\, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision\, yet their choices would lead them to astonishingly different destinies. \nTold in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption\, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world. 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