To observe Black History Month, please join the Saratoga Springs Public Library to discuss reading selections from Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain's book Four Hundred Souls. They will meet twice during the month to discuss what we have read. Copies of the book may be found on the Reading Group shelves from the second floor of the library, or requested through our catalog.

For the first meeting on Tuesday, February 7th please read:

"Arrival" by Nikole Hannah-Jones (p.3); "Whipped for Lying with a Black Woman" by Ijeoma Oluo (p.11); "Black Women's Labor" by Brenda E. Stevenson (p.18); "Elizabeth Keye" by Jennifer L. Morgan (p.39); "The Selling of Joseph" by Brandon R. Byrd (p.73); "The Virginia Slave Codes" by Kai Wright (p.77); "African Identities" by Walter C. Rucker (p.96); "David George" by William J Barber II (p.135); "Cotton" by Kiese Laymon (p.169); and "Remembering the Albany 3" by Ishmael Reed (p.181) (a total of 43 pages).