BEYOND 21
Join us as we keep the conversation going…
If you participated in our Community Justice Challenge, you are probably here because you recognize the importance of keeping the conversation going as it relates to eliminating racism.
If you didn’t participate in this year’s Community Justice Challenge, you are still welcome to join us. Learning about ways to advocate for racial equity and justice for all is a journey that we are all on together. Everyone is welcome to start their journey any time.
Beyond 21 is an initiative focused on keeping us together to have the important conversations following our 21-day Community Justice Challenge.
Meet our Beyond 21 Book Club
Introducing All the RaGE – YWCA South Florida’s First-Ever Racial Equity Book Club (a Program of YWCA South Florida’s Beyond 21 Series)
WHEN: Once a month on the last Wednesday from 2-3 p.m.
WHERE: Virtually (Zoom link to be provided)
Grab your lunch and join us virtually each month to discuss the books we have pre-selected for us to read together. Commit to 10 pages each day. Tune in as we recap and discuss.
Books we are reading:
FEATURED BOOK FOR MARCH
A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever. The play’s title comes from a line in Langston Hughes’s poem “Harlem,” which warns that a dream deferred might “dry up/like a raisin in the sun.”
FEATURED BOOK FOR APRIL
The Stars and The Blackness Between Them
By: Juanada Peters
Told in two distinct and irresistible voices, Junauda Petrus’s bold and lyrical debut is the story of two black girls from very different backgrounds finding love and happiness in a world that seems determined to deny them both.
FEATURED BOOK FOR MAY
I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
By: Erika Schanzez
A “stunning” novel about a teenager coming to terms with losing her sister and finding herself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home.