Necessary Trouble by Drew Gilpin Faust

Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 7:00 – 8:30 pm

“How do we have history that’s not uncomfortable? How do we have any kind of education that doesn’t make you in some way uncomfortable? Education asks you to change.”
– Drew Gilpin Faust

Necessary Trouble is a memoir written by Drew Gilpin Faust, historian, civil rights activist and the first woman president of Harvard. The book is about her growing up in Virginia and coming of age during a period of rapid social transformation. Margaret Morrison will facilitate the discussion. Please read chapters two through seven.

But you are very welcome to join in our discussion even if you haven’t read the chapters. (There is an NPR interview with Dr. Faust at Harvard’s Drew Gilpin Faust reflects on activism in ‘Necessary
Trouble’ : NPR.)

The Zoom link will be sent to all people on the Bookread email list. If you are not on this list and would like to receive the Zoom link or be added to the DARTT Bookread Mailing List, send an e-mail to dartt@pbuuc.org.

Necessary Trouble is available from local libraries. If you plan to buy it, consider Black-owned/progressive independent bookstores in this area (Busboys and Poets, Loyalty Books, Mahogany Books, Politics and Prose, Sankofa, My Dead Aunt’s Books, Solid State). It is also available on Audible.

DARTT APRIL MEETING
Wednesday April 17, 2024
7:00- 8:30 pm

This meeting will include discussion of ideas, tried and untried, about Racial Climate on the way to Beloved Community. See you there!