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SUMMARY:The BAR Member Meeting
DESCRIPTION:“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty\, and separates the big people from the small of heart\, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.”—Zadie Smith \n\n\n \nOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century\, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.
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LOCATION:The LOVE Building\, 4731 Grand River Ave\, Detroit\, MI\, 48208\, United States
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SUMMARY:The BAR Member Meeting
DESCRIPTION:In this New York Times bestseller\, Elie Mystal offers a brilliant takedown of ten shocking pieces of legislation that continue to perpetuate hate\, racial bias\, injustice\, and inequality today-an urgent yet hopeful read for our current political climate \n“Mystal is a grassroots legal superhero\, and his superpower is the ability to explain to the masses in clear language the all-too-human forces at play behind the making of our laws.” –Michael Eric Dyson\, New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot StopIn Bad Law\, the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution reimagines what our legal system\, and society at large\, could look like if we could move past legislation plagued by racism\, misogyny\, and corruption. Through accessible yet detailed prose and trenchant wit\, Mystal argues that these egregiously awful laws–his “Bill of Wrongs”–continue to cause systematic and individual harm and should be repealed completely. \nBy exposing the flawed foundations of the rules we live by\, and through biting humor and insight\, Bad Law offers a crisp\, pertinent take on: \nabortion and the Hyde Amendment\, and the role federal funding\, or lack thereof\, has played in depriving women of necessary health and reproductive care \nimmigration and illegal reentry\, and the illusions that have been sold to us regarding immigration policy\, reform\, and whiteness at large \nvoter registration laws\, and how the right to vote has become a moral issue\, and ironically\, antidemocratic \ngun control and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act\, and the extreme yet obvious dangers of granting immunity to gun manufacturers \nBut\, as the man Samantha Bee calls “irrepressible and righteously indignant” and Matt Levine of Bloomberg Opinion calls “the funniest lawyer in America\,” points out\, these laws do not come to us from on high; we write them\, and we can and should unwrite them. In a fierce\, funny\, and wholly original takedown spanning all the hot-button topics in the country today\, one of our most brilliant legal thinkers points the way to a saner tomorrow.
URL:https://dev.brothersalsoread.com/event/the-bar-member-meeting-21/
LOCATION:The LOVE Building\, 4731 Grand River Ave\, Detroit\, MI\, 48208\, United States
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SUMMARY:The BAR Virtual Meeting - 12/18/25
DESCRIPTION: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 first generation of African Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s. \nWhen the book was first published in 1965\, it was praised for its realistic portrayal of Harlem—the children\, young people\, hardworking parents; the hustlers\, drug dealers\, prostitutes\, and numbers runners; the police; the violence\, sex\, and humor. \nThe book continues to resonate generations later\, not only because of its fierce and dignified anger\, not only because the struggles of urban youth are as deeply felt today as they were in Brown’s time\, but also because of its inspiring message. Now with an introduction by Nathan McCall\, here is the story about the one who “made it\,” the boy who kept landing on his feet and grew up to become a man. \nWith millions of copies in print\, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time—the definitive account of African-American youth in Harlem of the 1940s and 1950s\, and a seminal work of modern literature.
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