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Thursday Night Read

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The Black Family Who Built America - the McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring Pioneers by Cheryl McKissack Daniel with Nick Chiles. sign up below: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBKHnsmjWfG8DTKZk4Wyvms-8xjkicexF9dLTvayx1qOrwJQ/viewform?usp=publish-editor

The BAR Virtual Meeting – 12/18/25

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Published during a literary era marked by the ascendance of black writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Alex Haley, this thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown’s childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for […]

The BAR Virtual Meeting – 8/21/25

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER "Kai-Fu Lee believes China will be the next tech-innovation superpower and in AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, he explains why. Taiwan-born Lee is perfectly positioned for the task."—New York Magazine In this thought-provoking book, Lee argues powerfully that because of the unprecedented developments in […]