THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

  We may have come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now. --        Martin Luther King, Jr.  

The Latina Book Club supports our Black Brothers and Sisters   and our Afro Latinx / Black Latinx Communities during these hard times.   Black Lives Matter.    We See You. We Hear You.   We Support You. Aside from donating money to the different organizations supporting the movement and the protesters, we want to support Afro-Latinx / Black Latinx authors by purchasing and reading their books.   Below is a short list in no particular order.   We welcome additions to this list.     Happy Reading.   Take care and Stay Safe.   20 AFRO LATINX  /  BLACK LATINX WRITERS  NO ONE IS ILLEGAL: FIGHTING RACISM AND STATE VIOLENCE IN THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER   by Justin Akers Chacón and Mike Davis (Haymarket Books) AN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND LATINX HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES By Paul Ortiz (Beacon Press) 13 WAYS TO LOOK AT A BLACK BOY By Tony Medina & 13 Artists ...

Just when there is a light at the end of this Covid-19 tunnel we’ve been bunkered in for the past eight weeks, there is a confrontation at the Brambles in Central Park and a murder in Minneapolis that shatter our lives, our country, the world. The Latina Book Club condemns racism in all its forms. We especially condemn the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police.   We stand in solidarity with our Black brothers and sisters, friends, neighbors, and community members. We Are   In This Together .   We recognize that ALL Americans are equal, and that no matter the color of our skin, religion, sexual orientation, economic background, et al, ALL of us are part of the whole, and we must be treated with respect and dignity. We know that by working together we as a community, as a country, can ALL stamp out racism, police brutality, sexual harassment, bullying and greed, and create a new and better world. Until that time comes, please know th...