LORENA AMOS
Lorena Amos, with the United Black Book Clubs of Pittsburgh, tells the New Pittsburgh Courier that the organization’s next “Community Read Aloud” will be held on Saturday, June 28, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Carnegie Library in Homewood.
The selected book will be “The Message” by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
All are welcome to attend.
What have some entities said about “The Message”? The New Yorker said that Coates was “intellectually fearless…unshackled by political or racial ideology, humane in his judgments, respectful of facts, acutely aware of the difference between what is knowable and what is not.”
Oprah Daily called the book, “an earnest and intimate exploration of locations of extreme injustice, and of the power of writing to render a more compassionate—and more honest—future…At once a rallying cry and a love letter to writing itself, the book is an urgent reminder that ‘politics is the art of the possible, but art creates the possible of politics.’”
And the Boston Globe said that “Coates has been known for his incisive (and sometimes uncomfortable) cultural and political commentary. Here he journeys from West Africa to the American South to Palestine to examine how the stories we tell can fail us, and to argue that only the truth can bring justice.”
The book was released on Oct. 1, 2024.
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