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RACIAL JUSTICE READING GROUP


This is an ongoing reading and support group for MVHC members.
For inquiries and information on joining the group, please contact Olivia.

Hello beloveds! 

We are meeting again on June 19 at 5pm (JUNETEENTH)...

We will discuss the first 200 pages of the biography 
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
I started the audiobook and it is fantastic. It just won the Pulitzer prize. 

On May 25, it will be 3 years since George Floyd’s murder. Rest in Power! 

All the best,
Olivia

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PAST TOPICS


Lucy negro, redux
In DESCENDANT, award-winning filmmaker Margaret Brown returns to her hometown of Mobile, Alabama, to document the search for and historic discovery of The Clotilda, the last known ship to arrive in the United States, illegally carrying 110 kidnapped Africans.





​Monday, September 12th, 2022 
the group discussed the documentary film: "Quest: A Portrait of an American Family."  
See the Official Trailer below.

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​In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldw
in's death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. -
from Wikipedia.

Jews Are Not a Race

Read the Essay in Forward
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​This essay in the "Forward" is adapted from the sermon Rabbi Angela Buchdahl delivered to Manhattan’s Central Synagogue, where she has been senior rabbi since 2013. Buchdahl was the first Asian-American to be ordained as a rabbi and, before that, the first to ordained as a cantor. You can watch the sermon on video here, or click on the video below.
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