Reading While Black Book Club

About Reading While Black Book Club

Reading While Black Book Club is a podcast where we dissect and discuss Black literature. Each month we select a book by us with us in mind giving our listeners access to the authors via interview where their questions get answered and they become part of the show. Friends, community leaders, and activists stop by as we amplify their work in marginalized communities. We promote reading as a self-help tool for better mental health and provide a safe space where individuals can tell their stories. As Black people, Black literature is not monolithic and all of it deserves celebration.

Publisher

J. Barnes

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

14 Jul 2018

Latest episode

12 Feb 2021

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Feb 2021

   Happy Black History Month X Happy Black Futures Month X Happy 4 Year Anniversary

   Happy 4 Year Anniversary Today we discuss Black History Month, Black Futures Month and our new rollout for the book club going forward. I also have some special guests coming on the show today. Thank you for rocking with us To celebrate, all RWB merch is 35% off when you use the promo code RWBFOUR (R-W-B-F-O-U-R) You can check out our shirts, hoodies, masks and tote bags HERE (https://teespring.com/stores/reading-while-black-book-club?aid=marketplace) We're on Slack Be sure to join our Slack channel. This online community will be a resource center for all our listeners and readers. You will have access to the reading material and additional tools to help apply the books we're reading to everyday life. . You can join HERE (Let’s work together in Slack! It’s a faster, simpler way to talk shop, share files, and get work done. Join here: https://join.slack.com/t/readingwhileblackpod/shared_invite/zt-lzarzfsn-E5tOE5sGycX3H5qDqBDM~Q) February Books Of The Month Feminism Is For Everybody by bell hooks Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy by Lindsay C. Gibson This is part of our Mental Health Mondays and is a continuation of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents Every Mon at 6PM EST on Clubhouse. Our next meeting is February 15th. Heavy by Kiese Laymon Every Mon, Wed, & Fri at 10AM EST on Clubhouse Our first meeting is February 15th. Roy Wilkins: The Quiet Revolutionary and the NAACP: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century by Yvonne Ryan Every Tue, Thu, & Sat at 10AM EST on Clubhouse. Our first meeting is February 11th. The End of Policing by Alex Vitale Every Tue at 3PM EST on Clubhouse. Our next meeting is February 16th. Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall Every Tue at 8PM EST on Clubhouse. Our next meeting is February 16th. All About Love by bell hooks Every Mon, Wed & Thu 3PM EST on Clubhouse. Our first meeting February 10th. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem Every Thu 6PM EST on Clubhouse. Our next meeting is February 11th. All Boys Aren’t Blue by George Johnson Every Sat at 3PM. Our next meeting is February 13th. George just released a dramatic reading of All Boys Aren’t Blue on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D13C6_H4Fdo). The Devil You Know by Charles M. Blow Every Sun at 3PM EST on Clubhouse. Our next meeting is February 14th. How To Fight Racism by Jemar Tisby This is a continuation of Jemar’s The Color of Compromise: The Truth About The American Church’s Complicity In Racism Every Sun at 6PM EST on Clubhouse. Our next meeting is February 14th. Check out our Linktree HERE (https://linktr.ee/readingwhileblack)

2. 

   28 Aug 2020

   My 30th Birthday 🎉🎈🎁

   Hey readers, It is my 30th birthday and I wanted to give you a special episode just for today with a new segment highlight my favorite Black Podcasts and huge announcement about a new miniseries coming to Reading While Black. I hope you enjoy Remember “If you love what you hear, you can help with Listener Support. You can assist us to buy books for youth incarcerated at the Alabama DYS Mt. Meigs campus, L.B. Wallace as they transition from behind bars back into their community. ” There are three tiers $0.99 $4.99 $9.99 Remember to support your local bookstore. If you're looking for a bookstore 1977 Books here in Montgomery, AL You can become a Patreon like me and receive exclusive books each month. Also they carry all the books selected by Reading While Black Podcast. www.1977Books.com (//www.1977Books.com) Facebook: @1977Books Instagram: @1977Books Twitter: @1977Books Remember to leave us a Voice Message so you can share your reading experience and be a part of the podcast. Remember to check out Reading While Black Merch (https://teespring.com/stores/reading-while-black-book-club?aid=marketplace) Use promo code “RWBFAM” for 35% off Remember to leave a review and five ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Follow Us Facebook: @ReadingWhileBLK Facebook Group: Reading While Black Book Club Twitter: @ReadingWhileBLK Instagram: @ReadingWhileBLK www.readingwhileblackbookclub.com (//www.readingwhileblackbookclub.com)

3. 

   1 May 2020

   Cognac & Celexa (Reading While Black Discusses I Don't Want To Die Poor with author Michael Arceneaux)

   Welcome back readers, I'm back with another episode of Reading While Black Podcast and today we have Michael Arceneaux here to discuss his second book, I Don't Want To Die Poor. This is not just a perfect book for right now at this moment as student loan debt is a national conversation during the 2020 Presidential Race but it was a perfect book 10 years ago. Michael tells his story and how debt doesn't just affect you financially but becomes burdens on your mental health and your dating life. It's not too late to pick up I Don't Want To Die Poor. Remember to support your local bookstores in your community. It's also time to announce our May Book of the Month. If you did not know, May is Mental Health Awareness Month and I thought it was appropriate to select a book that focused on solutions to dealing with trauma. It gives me great pleasure to announce our book of the month for May is My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts by Resmaa Menakem. The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of body-centered psychology. He argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn't just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police. My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide. Paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy—how it is literally in our blood and our nervous system. Offers a step-by-step solution—a healing process—in addition to incisive social commentary. Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, is a therapist with decades of experience currently in private practice in Minneapolis, MN, specializing in trauma, body-centered psychotherapy, and violence prevention. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil as an expert on conflict and violence. Menakem has studied with bestselling authors Dr. David Schnarch (Passionate Marriage) and Dr. Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score). He also trained at Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute. If you live in the Montgomery, AL area, you can pick it up at your local abolition bookstore 1977 Books. In light of COVID-19, 1977 Books have gone digital so check them out on their website. www.1977Books.com Facebook: @1977Books Instagram: @1977Books Twitter: @1977Books Remember to leave us a Voice Message so you can share your reading experience and be a part of the podcast. Remember to check out Reading While Black Merch Use promo code “RWBFAM” for 35% off Remember to leave a review and five ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Follow Us Facebook: @ReadingWhileBLK Facebook Group: Reading While Black Book Club Twitter: @ReadingWhileBLK Instagram: @ReadingWhileBLK www.readingwhileblackbookclub.com

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