#BlackWURDs Book Club with Nick Taliaferro

July 7, 2022 1

#BlackWURDs Book Club is a monthly book club that airs on select days of each month on Evening WURDS with Nick Taliaferro on WURD Radio. ForWURD Members can get copies of our featured books and receive a 20 percent discount when you purchase at Harriet’s Bookshop or Hakim’s bookstore!!

July’s book is: “Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions” by Joseph Graves Jr. and Alan Goodman.

Did you miss out on any of the books that we’ve featured in the past? Don’t worry! Check out the list below:

2022 LIST
JANUARY 2022 – “Ten Lives, Ten Demands: Life-and-Death Stories, and a Black Activist’s Blueprint for Racial Justice” by Solomon Jones
FEBRUARY 2022 – “Black Samson” by Dr. Nyasha Junior and Jeremy Schipper
MARCH 2022 – “Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America” by Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden
APRIL – “Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution” by Elie Mystal
MAY – “Gathering Blossoms Under Fire” by Alice Walker

2021 LIST
JANUARY 2021 – “Deacon King Kong” by James McBride
FEBRUARY 2021 – “Long Time Coming” by Michael Eric Dyson
MARCH 2021 – “Black Women’s History of the US” by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
APRIL 2021 – “The Tradition” by Jericho Brown
MAY 2021 – “Living In Color” by Tommy Davidson
JUNE 2021 – “Taught By Women: Poems as Resistance Language” by Haki Madhubuti
JULY 2021 – “White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America” by Dr. Anthea Butler
SEPTEMBER 2021 – “Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America” by Keith Boykin
OCTOBER 2021 – “Blessed by the Best: My Journey to Canton and Beyond” by Brian Dawkins
NOVEMBER 2021 – “All the Real Indians Died Off:” And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz & Dina Gilio-Whitaker
DECEMBER 2021- “BLAM! (Black Lives Always Mattered!: Hidden African American Philadelphians in the Twentieth Century)” a Blockson Collection Project

If you’ve missed any of the conversations, don’t worry! Check out the #BlackWURD’s Book Club playlist and enjoy!

https://soundcloud.com/onwurd/sets/blackwurds-book-club-bookMay