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A Call to Action Book Club

CIVIC (Community Inspired Violence Intervention Coalition) will show you how to use My Sidewalk to get to know your neighborhood. Everyone is welcome. Register to attend in person or virtually.

This community book club is a partnership with the YWCA Northeast Kansas to create space for anti-racist learning, conversation and connection. We meet at 7pm on the fourth Monday of every month (subject to change due to holidays) following a two-month topic cycle. In the first month of our meeting cycle we will have presentations, activities and other topic related items on the agenda. For our second month of the cycle we will discuss our selected book. You are welcome to attend either or both meetings, as it fits with your schedule. 

Our November and December topic is “Violence is an Epidemic.” In November CIVIC (Community Inspired Violence Intervention Coalition) will teach us how to use My Sidewalk to get to know your neighborhood. In December we'll discuss The Bodies Keep Coming by Dr. Brian Williams. Email kkriley@tscpl.org with questions or for a copy of the current book.

In The Bodies Keep Coming Dr. Brian Williams, a Harvard trained physician, recounts his experiences as a Black man in the trauma bay. From gunshot wounds to traumatic brain injuries, Williams has seen it all.  Alongside narrations of the on-goings in the trauma bay, Williams works to reveal the roots of violence people are facing today because of racism. From injustices in daily life, to injustices in medicine, William considers the underlying structures leading to racial violence and inequality. 
 

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