This week's book:
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019
Edited by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain
I was going to read this book originally, but then I found out each chapter/section for the audiobook was narrated by different African American actors. I am so glad that I opted for that option. All the different voices telling all these stories really gives the book a quilt collage feeling. Each "chapter" was written by different authors and covers a few years of the four hundred years of the treatment of black people in America.
The book is very well written and very well put together. As always, it is heart-breaking and hard to read about how horrible people can treat each other just because of the color of someone's skin. Since I started trying to be better educated about race (and let's be honest, about everything they didn't teach us at school), I have tried to read as much as I could. I know reading some books isn't enough, but it's a start, and maybe I can teach my kids and the people around me to be better than the people that have come before me.
I would highly recommend this book.
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