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Color Me Read!®
You may color me mocha before pleasantries are said At first conversation’s end you will thereafter color me read Well read, well bred, well-traveled—Each year a different nation No Miseducation here. No intellectual intimidation. “If you want to keep something from a black person, write it in a book~” Nah, my father wasn’t having it- desk near the rear I never took, He made sure it wasn’t me who the teacher would overlook He made my lunch each school day before sending me on my way Peanut butter and marshmallow fluff between two slices of Wonder Bread, Humming promises of my magenta destiny once I am colored read When I…
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Color Me Read Book Club Selections
1. The Kite Runner — Khalid Hussein 2. The Known World — Edward P. Jones 3. Simple Takes a Wife — Langston Hughes 4. A Confederacy of Dunces — John Kennedy Toole 5. Is Bill Cosby Right? — Michael Eric Dyson 6. Douglass’ Women — Jewell Parker Rhodes 7. The Secret Life of Bees — Sue Monk Kidd 8. Dreams of My Father — Barack Obama 9. Finding Fish — Antwone Fisher 10. Getting Mother’s Body — Suzanne Lori Parks 11. The Dew Breaker — Edwidge Danticat 12. Six Little Pieces — Walter Mosley 13. Finding Grace — Shirlee Taylor Haizlip 14. Some People, Some Other Place — J. California…
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Club members gather an anniversary
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A view to the future
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Cristal and Carl at Valor Village
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Essence Magazine
Sanaa Lathan on the cover of Essence. Color Me Read was profiled inside.
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Newport News
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Color Me Read History
Believing that wonderment, joy, curiosity, and growth should be unrestrained, in the fallof 2002, six avid readers committed to sharing their love for literature by founding ColorMe Read® Book Club. Because so many of their casual conversations included thequestion, what are your reading? This group of D-M-V area residents decided to createspace in their hectic lives to detail answers to that question on a regular basis.The name, Color Me Read®, was unanimously selected by members during abrainstorming session. Its significance is rooted in the homonymous poem written by aco-founder: Angela Johnson.Book club membership steadily grew to its maximum of 15 passionate word nerds,anxious to expand their exposure to unexplored texts,…
