Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Back to All Resources Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehreneich As a Mathew 25 church one of the things we have agreed to work towards is eradicating systemic poverty.  While cleaning out my bookshelves recently, I got the chance to revisit some great books.  One of those...
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Back to All Resources Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi A story based on history, the history of slavery, Homegoing depicts the generations of two half-sisters with the same mother. The story begins in Ghana where the American slave trade began. Each chapter is about the life of...
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates

Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates

Back to All Resources Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This book does as good a job explaining reconstruction, white supremacy, and the Jim Crow South as any longer, deeper book I have read. It is...
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Back to All Resources The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates A novel about a river and slavery and the Deep South. From the back jacket of the book is a statement that, for me, sums up nicely what this book is about. “ …. transcendent work that restores the humanity of...
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Back to All Resources Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston This is an old novel, first published in 1937, written by a Black writer in a time when there weren’t many Black writers. It’s a love story that incorporates Southern dialect into the story. It...