THE FIRE NEXT TIME

by James Baldwin

From the publisher's website:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. • "The finest essay I’ve ever read.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates 

At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document from the iconic author of If Beale Street Could Talk and Go Tell It on the Mountain. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. 

Described by The New York Times Book Review as "sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle … all presented in searing, brilliant prose," The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of literature.

About the Brave Space Book Club (BSBC):

We are in a moment when many people wish to read more, learn more, and understand more about each other. The BSBC is an intimate and inclusive forum to discuss fiction and nonfiction books we’re curious about reading—a space to have open and frank conversations about books that broaden our knowledge of Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion (DEAI). BSBC discussions are co-hosted by Titi Ngwenya and Deborah Hunter-Jones; the BSBC reading list is voted in by book clubbers. If you are open to reading this subject matter and exploring how to talk to each other about it in an inclusive environment, please join us!

The BSBC meets once a month via Zoom, usually on Wednesdays, 8-9:30 p.m.

Contact us:
To register for this Zoom event, or for more information and/or to be added to the BSBC mailing list, please email irisllapaix@gmail.com.

Free and open to all.

Upcoming schedule of Brave Space Book Club book titles and discussion dates:

• February 28: Read and discuss the 1st half of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington (Nonfiction, 264 pages)
• March 27: Read and discuss the 2nd half of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington (Nonfiction, 264 pages)
• April 24: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Fiction, 219 pages)
• May 29: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (Nonfiction, 368 pages)
• June 26: Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner (Biography, 240 pages)