Black Men Reading is a book club and discussion group dedicated to both literacy and the love of reading. Focusing on titles and topics of particular interest to African-Americans, the group meets weekly to encourage conversation on important social topics."We have to create a place where the images we want and need to see are being nurtured," says founder and facilitator Ezra Hyland, a University of Minnesota Teaching Specialist. "To me, two or three men discussing a book is as powerful an image as 10 young Black men running up and down a basketball court."
Black Men Reading is currently discussing Deconstructing Tyrone : A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-hop Generation by Natalie Hopkinson. Named for the title character of Erykah Badu's 1997 song of the same name, Deconstructing Tyrone explores the lives of post-hiphop black men in America.
The group meets Wednesday evenings, 6pm to 8pm at the NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center (1313 Penn Ave N, in Minneapolis). For more information, call 612/302-4692.
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