I'm going to be straight up with you and say I often feel the exact same hopelessness Ta-Nehisi has expressed throughout this book, and which so many of you have raised concerns about. There are moments that I want to throw my hands in the air and say, "I surrender." Today, my husband and I …
Forward: Between the World and Me, Part Two
"I am wounded. I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next." —Ta-Nehisi Coates Once again, thank you for your gracious conversation as we discuss this book. It's a heavy one, isn't it? There is so much potential for the conversation to go off the …
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Forward: Between the World and Me, Part One, cont’d.
Thanks so much for the conversation last week, everyone. If you're following along and have something you'd like to contribute to the conversation — a question, a viewpoint, an idea — but you're not feeling comfortable about sharing it, please hang in there with us. You are welcome here. I've …
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Forward: Between the World and Me | Part One
Never before have I wanted so badly to sit at a table with my readers and talk face-to-face. This book! I'm hoping I can do it justice in this space. I decided, the best thing to do is to share my reaction with you as a jumping off point for our conversations. Please don't feel as if you have to …
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Forward: An Introduction to “Between the World and Me”
Thank you for voting to read Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. I don't know if I would have gotten to it, were it not for your votes to read this one together. I admit to reading the book through once already, in anticipation of reading it with you. I wanted to have a good sense of how …
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What’s Next for Forward: A New York Times Best-Seller, A Fun Collaboration, and…Periscope!
Thank you to everyone who completed the survey from our very first round of Forward: A Book Club to Help Move the Conversation...Forward. Based on your responses to the survey, we're going to go deeper and read Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Here are the details, from …