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Can someone remind me of the title of the book we read for #SheSaid about how neighborhoods closed down swimming pools and public areas rather then desegregating them?

@Riveted_Reader_Melissa

TheBookHippie I didn‘t read with you but I think you mean this one

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

willaful @TheBookHippie Yes, thank you!
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TheBookHippie @willaful ♥️ 2d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa It might have been in here too

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Nope, just looked. TheBookHippie is correct 2d

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Suet624

Becoming a Matriarch | Helen Knott

Is there anything better than opening up your mailbox and finding that the only things in it are books?!!!

Thank you to @Karisa for forwarding the tagged book to me so that I could read the #SheSaid selection and thanks to @Riveted_Reader_Melissa for organizing the transfer.

TheSpineView Book mail!!! ❤️📕📪 2d

Suet624 @TheSpineView there are still good things happening in this disappointing world. 😊 2d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa That really is the best! Book Mail! 2d

Karisa 👏👏🥳🎉 2d

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Hooked_on_books

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower | Brittney Cooper

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In this deeply intelligent, thoughtful book, Dr Cooper explores race and gender and many of the realities of living as a black woman. There are things here and there I would dispute (not the living as a black woman but, as I am white), but that disagreement doesn‘t make this book any less superb. #SheSaid

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LitsyEvents

The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Timeless Story of One Woman's Journey to Be Heard | Kate Moore

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Hello #SheSaid

Up Next for May!

Put in those library holds and interlibrary loans!

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LitsyEvents

The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Timeless Story of One Woman's Journey to Be Heard | Kate Moore

repost for @Riveted_Reader_Melissa:

Hello #SheSaid

Up Next for May!

Put in those library holds and interlibrary loans!

#BuddyRead

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staci.reads

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower | Brittney Cooper

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I read this one for the #SheSaid challenge. I'm still trying to process it and decide how I'd rate it, but what I know is it pushed me and created discomfort, so that is success. I'm glad I read it, and I'll be thinking about it for awhile. @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Crinoline_Laphroaig Northanger Abbey Chapter a Day starts today! 2d

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Timeless Story of One Woman's Journey to Be Heard | Kate Moore

Hello #SheSaid

Up Next for May!

Put in those library holds and interlibrary loans!

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @psalva @Amor4Libros @DGRachel @Smrloomis ⤵️ 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 @Christine If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know! 😉 5d

Suet624 Oof. Thats a rough one. At least it was for me. 😩 5d

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Liz_M @LitsyEvents 5d

TieDyeDude Kate Moore is an auto-buy for me. This is a wild story; hope you enjoy it! 4d

TheKidUpstairs The audio was available, so I started this yesterday. Immediately engaging! I think I'm going to be rage-listening to a lot of this one! 2d

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DebinHawaii

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower | Brittney Cooper

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#Read2025 #MonthlyNonFiction2025 #RealHistory #HonestHistory

Read with #SheSaid for April, Brittney Copper writes clearly & passionately & I like how she weaves her personal experiences in with culture, history & current events. It‘s dismaying that this book was written in 2018 with Trump in office the first time & reading it in 2025 things just continue to get worse. Truthfully as a white woman, it was uncomfortable reading at times as she ⬇️

Riveted_Reader_Melissa, DieAReader, Librarybelle, julieclair

DebinHawaii … is spot on in her evaluation of our collective role in the injustice & bigotry that hold women of color & thus all women back. I think I highlighted half the book, but the two quotes pictured especially stood out for me because at the end of the day, Cooper focuses on hope & building the kind of world we want to see. (edited) 6d

Librarybelle I should read this! 6d

julieclair Great quotes. I love her positivity! 6d

DieAReader 💖💖💖 6d

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower | Brittney Cooper

Hello #SheSaid!

This month & this book flew by for me!

How did you all feel about this last section, and the book as a whole?

Riveted_Reader_Melissa For me this one was a re-read, but I did not remember a ton from the first time….so parts felt new…and since we are repeating history, some hit more and stuck with me more this time. For instance, the Michelle Obama thing, it was just in the news why she did not go to his second inauguration. Why we chose to repeat this catastrophe I will never understand. 6d

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa Never Scared seemed really poignant too right now with the attacks on University, classes available, etc. 6d

vlwelser It's weird to think she wrote this at the beginning of his original term and absolutely nothing is different. Despite there having been a pandemic in the middle. 6d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser very depressing 6d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser only change is it‘s worse faster. Took him years to build up to the pandemic level Gov issues, and that was with the problems of a pandemic. This time 100 days and all just him. (edited) 6d

vlwelser It's easier to repeat his previous nonsense than to make up new stuff. IMO 6d

vlwelser Is there a schedule for the next book? You know I like to plan 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser just working on that now 👍 5d

vlwelser 🤗😘 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser up now! 5d

Hooked_on_books I had to finish another book I was about to lose, so that delayed my finishing of this. I really liked this last section. Her chapter on the difficulties of dating as an educated woman really resonated with me. I met my husband when I was just turning 39 and long after giving up when dating just never worked, as all the guys ran away from my degree and work. Old fashioned gender roles are such crap! 5d

Hooked_on_books And the statistic of black women having a median net worth of $5 is devastating. Median! That puts the reality of living while black in such stark perspective. I‘ve had this book for a long time and am so glad I finally read it, as it is superb. Thanks for picking this a letting me tag along! 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Hooked_on_books right! That statistic is just shocking. Thank you for joining us. 4d

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vlwelser

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower | Brittney Cooper

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This author is very thoughtful and her perspective is interesting. I mostly listened to this on audio but I had a print copy as well.

#SheSaid @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 6d

mcctrish I just got the audio from the library 6d

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