Join us as Randy Mayeux presents the key content of a selected book each month, with a comprehensive handout of key quotes and key ideas from the book.
Then, in conversation with a diverse group of fellow participants, we discuss the implications of the book.
Urban Engagement Book Club meetings help our team and our community stay aware and in touch with the ongoing struggle and conversation around poverty in our community and country.
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Winners Take All
by Anand Giridharadas
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Links:
A Portrait of America's Middle Class, By The Numbers | NPR
CEO Pay Skyrockets To 361 Times That Of The Average Worker | Forbes
The 2018 Forbes 400 | Forbes
Anand Giridharadas on Twitter
End of the checkout line: the looming crisis for American cashiers | The Guardian
Your body language may shape who you are | Amy Cuddy, TED Talks
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White Fragility
by Robin DiAngelo
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Links:
White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It's not. | The Guardian
“Corner Stone” Speech | Alexander H. Stephens; Savannah, Georgia; March 21, 1861
Texas Ordinance of Secession | Lone Star Junction
Arrested Coast Guard Officer Allegedly Planned Attack 'On A Scale Rarely Seen' | NPR
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Give People Money
by Annie Lowrey
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Links:
How we can use tech to help lift people out of poverty | Melinda Gates
Universal Basic Income: The plan to give every American $12,000 | Big Think
Moore's Law | Encyclopaedia Britannica
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The King Years
by Taylor Branch
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Links:
Defining a Nation: Our America and the Sources of Its Strength| David Halberstam
Myths and Miracles from the King Years | Lecture by Taylor Branch
5 of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most memorable speeches | PBS
Introduction to the Civil Rights Movement | Khan Academy
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Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor Frankl
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Links:
Man's Search for Meaning | Psychology Today
Why Believe in Others - Viktor Frankl at the May 1972 Toronto Youth Corps | TED
Logotherapy | Wikipedia
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Myths America Lives By
by Richard T. Hughes
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Heartland
by Sarah Smarsh
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A History of America in 10 Strikes
by Erik Loomis
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