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Celebrate James Baldwin at 100!

This year, One Book One Bronx honors the lasting legacy of activist, scholar, and writer James Baldwin with a series of discussions, panels, screenings, wellness, and exhibitions focusing on a wide range of literary works and ideas. Click here for details.

We’re reading

Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome
A poetic and raw coming-of-age memoir in essays about blackness, masculinity, and addiction, Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harboring crushes on other boys propel forward this gorgeous, aching, and unforgettable debut.

Saturdays, 12-1:30p
Mar 16, 23, Apr 6, 13, & 20
The Bronx Museum
1040 Grand Concourse

3/16: Free book distribution
3/23: Pgs Intro-61
3/30: NO DISCUSSION!
4/6: Pgs 62-119
4/13: Pgs 123-184
4/20: Pgs 185-end
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Tuesdays, 7-8:30p
Mar 19, 26, Apr 2, & 9
on Zoom

3/19: Pgs Intro-61
3/26: Pgs 62-119
4/2: Pgs 123-184
4/9: Pgs 185-end
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
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Temple Folk by Aliyah Bilal
In Temple Folk by Aliyah Bilal, Black Muslims contemplate the convictions of their race, religion, economics, politics, and sexuality in America. The ten stories in this collection contribute to the bounty of diverse narratives about Black life by intimately portraying the experiences of a community that resists the mainstream culture.

Thursdays, 7-8:30p: May 2, 9, 16, 23, & 30
Bronx Collab, 3866 White Plains Rd, Bronx, NY
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
May 2: Intros and free book distribution
May 9: pgs 1-65, Chapters, Blue to The Spider
May 16: pgs 67-123, Chapters, Candy for Hanif to Woman in Naqib
May 23: pgs 123-166 Chapters, Who's Down? to Nikkah
May 30: pgs 167-238, chapters, sister Rose to Due North

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Saturdays, 12-1:30p: May 4, 11, 18, 25 & June 1
Bronx River Community Garden, 180th St. & Devoe Ave.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
May 4: Intros and free book distribution
May 11: pgs 1-65, Chapters, Blue to The Spider
May 18: pgs 67-123, Chapters, Candy for Hanif to Woman in Naqib
May 25: pgs 123-166 Chapters, Who's Down? to Nikkah
June 1: pgs 167-238, chapters, sister Rose to Due North

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Tuesdays, 7-8:30p: May 7, 14, 21, & 28
on Zoom
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
May 7: pgs 1-65, Chapters, Blue to The Spider
May 14: pgs 67-123, Chapters, Candy for Hanif to Woman in Naqib
May 21: pgs 123-166 Chapters, Who's Down? to Nikkah
May 28: pgs 167-238, chapters, sister Rose to Due North


One Book One Bronx
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

In Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem.

Saturdays, 12-1:30p: Jun 8, 15, 22, 29, & July 6
- Bronx River Community Garden, 180th St. & Devoe Ave.

Tuesdays, 7-8:30p: Jun 11, 18, 25, & July 2
- on Zoom


 
 

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