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.
Meetings are back to Mondays!
Next meeting will be: 
  • January 16 at 5pm, which is MLK Jr. Day!, we will discuss "Descendant," a newly released documentary on Netflix. Summary below. Please watch before we meet. (Running time 1hr 47min)
  • January 30 - keep reading Love Songs for a discussion on the first 500 pages.

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.

PAST TOPICS

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