We have finished discussing Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law. In response to what we learned there, we are now discussing writing an opinion piece in support of funding HBCUs

First discussion of writing an opinion piece in support of funding HBCUs
Continued discussion of writing an opinion piece in support of funding HBCUs
Continued discussion of writing an opinion piece in support of funding HBCUs
Continued discussion of writing an opinion piece in support of funding HBCUs

If a video was made of our discussions of The Color of Law, it can be viewed by clicking on the chapter title.

Date	Chapter	Page	Leader
Sept 29, 2024	Preface & 1. If San Francisco, Then Everywhere?	vii and 3	David
Oct 6	2. Public Housing, Black Ghettos - Part 1	I7	Al
Oct 13	2. Public Housing, Black Ghettos - Part 2	I7	Al
Oct 20	3. Racial Zoning	39	Jack
Oct 27	4. "Own Your Own Home"	59	Patsy
Nov 3	5. Private Agreements, Government Enforcement	77	David
Nov 10	6. White Flight	93	Al
Nov 17	7. IRS Support and Compliant Regulators	101	Gail
Nov 24	8. Local Tactics	115	Jack
Dec 1	Thanksgiving weekend recess
Dec 8	9. State-Sanctioned Violence	139	Mary Jane
Dec 15	10. Suppressed Incomes	153	Al
Dec 22	11. Looking Forward, Looking Back	177	Patsy
Dec 29	Christmas & New Years recess
Jan 5, 2025	12. Considering Fixes & Epilogue	195	Caroline

To watch videos of our prior discussions of:

1. several TED talks,
2. Jonathan Sacks’s book Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times,
3. Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation,
4. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s book The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is our Song,
5. Elaine Pagels’s book Revelations: Vision, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation and
6. Craig R. Koester’s Great Courses video lectures titled Apocalypse: Controversies and Meaning in Western History
7. Peniel Joseph’s book The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.
8. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones
9. Dina Gilio-Whitaker’s book As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock.