Organizers of Milford’s Black Lives Matter Community Book Club will host their next virtual meeting on Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. to discuss White Fragility (Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism) by Robin DiAngelo.
Club co-chair Jolyn Walker said that after the Milford Board of Aldermen passed its justice and equality resolution this summer, the club was formed to support a resolution goal to “build alliances with those committed to justice for all and to work together to support our shared conviction that racism must end.”
“One way we are working to dismantle racism is through these conversations. Our hope is that these will be meaningful and honest conversations about racial injustice in the small city with a big heart,” Walker said.
The facilitator for the discussion is Brittney Yancy, an assistant professor of humanities at Goodwin University in East Hartford. Her research focuses on 20th century US social movements, urban radicalism, critical race theory, women’s activism and black women’s political and intellectual history. Yancy has published with Oxford University Press and Greenwood Press, and her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library Grant, the Andrew W. Mellow Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the National Council of Black Studies and the Connecticut Humanities.
All are welcome to join in respectful discussion. Registration is required. Contact Jolyn Walker at MilfordBLMBook@yahoo.com to register or for more information.