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As big as Texas: one club reaches out to others to form statewide conference
When Tannie McGregor left a book club in Houston, Texas, she longed for a new reading family. After months of watching her read in solitude, her...
Black Issues Book Review, 09/01/06 by Pat Houser · More from publication -
Warning: black men thinking: Pittsburgh group uses books to foster discussion on crucial issues
AT SPIRITS EMBODIED GALLERY AND Literary Cafe, a black-owned business in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, members of the Pittsburgh Cadre collectively...
Black Issues Book Review, 07/01/06 by Pat Houser · More from publication -
The flex plan: clubs for those who don't have time for clubs
RENA SIMMONS IS CONSTANTLY IN motion. As the single mother of two with a hectic job at an accounting firm in Baltimore, Maryland, she has to be;...
Black Issues Book Review, 01/01/06 by Pat Houser · More from publication -
Well-read ladies in red: a Reno book club evolves into a chapter of an organization for mature women with a sense of mirth
When Michele Robinson relocated from Lake Havasu City, Arizona, to Reno, Nevada, in 2001, for her job with a linen supply company, she tried to...
Black Issues Book Review, 09/01/05 by Pat Houser · More from publication -
Don't tell anyone it's fun: Georgia children discover the joy of reading and building thinking skills
While volunteering in her child's classroom, Sukari Harris noticed that many of the students lacked confidence in their reading. After speaking...
Black Issues Book Review, 03/01/05 by Pat Houser · More from publication -
Immersed in West African ritual: a Brooklyn club samples the cuisine of Senegal to enrich its reading of a Senegalese novelist
Dear Aissatou: I have received your letter. By way of reply, I am beginning this diary, my prop in my distress. After reading these opening lines...
Black Issues Book Review, 11/01/04 by Pat Houser · More from publication -
Atlanta's August Book Club confab: Curtis Bunn's National Book Club Conference convenes for its second year
When hundreds of booklovers gather in Atlanta, Georgia, on August 6 for the second assembly of the National Book Club Conference (NBCC), the person...
Black Issues Book Review, 07/01/04 by Pat Houser · More from publication -
The mother of all black Book Clubs: after 13 years, Go on Girl! has become a national presence with more than 300 members in 12 states
Thirteen years ago, Tracy Mitchell-Brown opened the doors of her Brooklyn brownstone and invited a circle of friends to join her in a monthly...
Black Issues Book Review, 05/01/04 by Pat Houser · More from publication -
Remembering Margaret Walker: Louisville Kentucky reading group pays homage to a late, great author with televised book discussions
Joyce Barnett is a devoted fan of author Margaret Walker. When this Louisville, Kentucky, poet takes center stage at a coffeehouse or open-mic...
Black Issues Book Review, 03/01/04 by Pat Houser · More from publication -
Readers & writers, ink: contributors to an anthology create an alliance - books & clubs
In 1993, the African-American Heritage Society of Pensacola, Florida, published the first volume of When Black Folks Was Colored, a collection of...
Black Issues Book Review, 01/01/04 by Pat Houser · More from publication
