Black Authors Book Club

Join us for our book club, discussing books by Black authors. We are creating this space for all readers to share & learn about the Black experience, and books that reflect that perspective.

The book for September 24th is Before the Mayflower; A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962 by Lerone Bennet Jr. The black experience in America is addressed, from the Colonial period through the civil rights upheavals of the late 1950s to 1961, the time of publication. "Before the Mayflower" grew out of a series of articles Bennett published in Ebony magazine. Bennett's history is infused with a desire to set the record straight about black contributions to the Americas and about the powerful Africans of antiquity.