The Readers’ Corner is the Ashe Library’s book club which focuses on writers from the African World with a special emphasis on books highlighting social justice issues. The purpose of The Readers’ Corner is to provide a forum for its members to discuss and gain a better understanding of issues facing the African world.
The Readers' Corner meets on the first Sunday of every other month at TransAfrica Forum,
The book selection each month of the Readers' Corner focuses on a different region — Africa, the Caribbean and the
South).
If you have questions or are interested in joining The Readers' Corner, send an email with the subject "The Readers' Corner" to info@transafricaforum.org (please include your name, your email address and your phone number), or call 202.223.1960 Ext. 137.
Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in
The next regular meeting of TransAfrica Forum's Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Foreign Policy Library Readers' Corner book club will be held on Sunday, February 8, 2009, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM, featuring the book Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, by Peniel E. Joseph (2006, Henry Holt and Co.).
Venue: TransAfrica Forum
With the rallying cry of “Black Power!” in 1966, a group of black activists, including Stokely Carmichael [Kwame Toure] and Huey P. Newton, turned their backs on Martin Luther King’s pacifism and, building on Malcolm X’s legacy, pioneered a radical new approach to the fight for equality. Drawing on original archival research and more than sixty original oral histories, Peniel E. Joseph vividly invokes the way in which Black Power redefined black identity and culture and in the process redrew the landscape of American race relations. In a series of character-driven chapters, we witness the rise of Black Power groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panthers, and with them, on both coasts of the country, a fundamental change in the way Americans understood the unfinished business of racial equality and integration.
The book is available at Teaching for Change Bookstore at Busboys and Poets,
For more information contact TransAfrica Forum Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Foreign Policy Library: Tel: 202.223.1960 ext. 137 or Fax: 202.223.1966 or email:
The next regular meeting of TransAfrica Forum's Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Foreign Policy Library Readers' Corner book club will be held on Sunday, December 7, 2008, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM, featuring the book Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil by John Ghazvinian (2007, published by Harcourt, Orlando).
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