If you are looking for something new to read, stop by the library and pick up a list of our favorite Coots Library books, compiled by Library Committee members. On that list you’ll see a collection entitled Black Lives Matter, a selection of books we are building related to racial justice issues.
In the months ahead we hope you will spend time reading one or more of these titles, in anticipation of a Common Read discussion in the spring. The book selected by the UUA for the 2016-2017 Common Read is The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II with Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove. If you haven’t heard the ideas of Rev. Barber, you can find his speech from this summer’s UUA General Assembly on YouTube. He also spoke at the Democratic National Convention this summer.
Other titles available in the Coots Library are Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson, and The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color-Blindness, by Michelle Alexander. We look forward to some stimulating conversations related to these issues in the year ahead.