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The MCF Book Club creates a space for authors, scholars, and organizers to examine the most pressing issues of our time and imagine how we can radically transform our world. Together, the MCF Book Club series offers a course toward a liberated future.

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Symphony Space, New York, NY

A Night with Ta-Nehisi Coates

Symphony Space, New York, NY

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Winston-Salem State University

Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis

Winston-Salem State University

Ryann Liebenthal

Dr. Leah Barlow

Dr. Jalil Mustaffa Bishop

Boston Review: What Is the State For?

Online Event

Dr. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Dr. Thea Riofrancos

Live: The Altman Building, New York, NY

King: A Life

Live: The Altman Building, New York, NY

Dr. Darrick Hamilton

The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart

Online Event

Maximillian Alvare

Live Event: The Altman Building, New York, NY

SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence

Live Event: The Altman Building, New York, NY

Kimberlé Crenshaw

Inciting Joy

Online Event

Live Event: Lavan 641, New York , NY

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Live Event: Lavan 641, New York , NY

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Live Event: Refectory at Chelsea Square, New York, NY

Invisible No More: Voices from Native America

Live Event: Refectory at Chelsea Square, New York, NY

Heather Fleming

Michael Roberts

Trisha Kehaulani Watson, JD, PhD

Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt

Online Event

Dr. Orisanmi Burton

BIG BETS: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens

Online Event

Dr. Rajiv J. Shah

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Online Event

Toni-Michelle Williams

Live Event: Town Hall Seattle, Seattle WA

Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies

Live Event: Town Hall Seattle, Seattle WA

Colin Kaepernick

Robin D. G. Kelley

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

Online Event

Thelma Young Lutunatabua

Elite Capture How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics

Online Event

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Maurice Mitchel

The Persuaders: A conversation with Anand Giridharadas

Online Event

Anand Giridharadas

Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color Book Event

Online Event

Lorgia García-Peña

Charlene A. Carruthers

Abolition. Feminism. Now. - A Conversation About the Politics and Practice of Abolition Feminism

Online Event

Angela Y. Davis

Erica R. Meiners

The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves

Online Event

Dr. Shawn Ginwright

Dr. Gislaine Ngounou

Dr. Robert K. Ross

Becoming Abolitionists– A History of Failed Police Reforms & Vision for True Public Safety

Online Event

Derecka Purnell

Robin D. G. Kelley

How We Give Now: A Philanthropic Guide for the Rest of Us

Online Event

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation & How the Cost of Policing Underfunds Us All

Online Event

Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Dorothy Brown’s The Whiteness of Wealth and How Washington’s Tax System Impoverishes Communities of Color

Online Event

Dorothy A. Brown

A Conversation about The Sum of Us & the Costs of Racism with Heather McGhee, Dr. Carmen Rojas and Tom Perriello

Online Event

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