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Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 3:30pm., FREE

Join Afri-Ware for a book signing
Michelle Alexander
the author of
"THE NEW JIM CROW - Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"


A longtime civil rights advocate and litigator, Michelle Alexander won a 2005 Soros Justice Fellowship and now holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University. Alexander served for several years as director of Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, and subsequently directed the Civil Rights Clinics at Stanford Law School, where she was an associate professor.

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"In this stunning and incisive critique, civil rights lawyer-turned-legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting Black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control..."

S p o n s o r s

Hartzell United Methodist Church,
Afri-Ware Bookstore
Bronzeville Visitor Information Center
The Black Star Project
are bringing Michelle Alexander to Chicago to lecture on her internationally acclaimed book.

Book signing and lecture with special guest author Michelle Alexander author of "THE NEW JIM CROW - Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". PRE-ORDERING AVAILABLE to get your book signed! You can pick up in store at your convenience or get it shipped signed. You don't have to go to the event to get it shipped. (Signed orders must be placed BEFORE the event. You also can buy the book at at the event without ordering it in advance.) Purchase online here on sale for
signed shipped $27.95+$6.00 shipping/handling or signed pickup $27.95 .

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
NOTE: This event is not at Afriware.
This event will be at Hartzell United Methodist Church, 3330 South King Drive, Chicago, IL

708-524-8398
Saturday, July 10, 2010 3:30pm.


Donate a Book to a Child


We have launched a special children’s program entitled Donate a book to a Child Program (TM). This program involves asking members of the community to promote reading by purchasing and donating a book(s) to individual children, institutions and schools. The launch of this program represents Afri-Ware’s tribute to the lasting legacy of CAMILLE YARBROUGH while also promoting reading and literacy as a necessary part of children’s lives. Your book donation is tax deductible for qualified not-for-profit (AKA non-profit) organizations. For more information please call Afri-Ware at 708-524-8398.



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ADULT
1. Miseducation of the Negro Carter G. Woodson
2. From The Browder File Anthony Browder
3. What They Never Told You in History Class Indus Kush
4. The Middle Passage Tom Feelings
5. The Isis Papers Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
6. Message to the People Marcus Garvey/Tony Martin

7. Medical Apartheid

Maintaining Our Temples

Harriet Washington

Qaarandin

8. The Willie Lynch Letter and Psychopathic Racial Personality Bobby
Wright
9. 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro J. A. Rogers
10. Tribute to African Civilization Kasala Kamara
CHILDREN
1. Princess Briana Yaba Baker

2. Mighty Menfolk

Pretty Brown Face

C. Weatherford

Angela Pinkney

3. Black Holocaust for Beginners S. E. Anderson

4. Brown Honey and Broomwheat Tea

Hey Black Child and other poems

Joyce Thomas

Useni Perkins

5. Cornrows Camille Yarbrough
6. Bright Eyes, Brown Skin Cheryl Willis Hudson
7. My first Trip to Africa Atlantis Browder
8. The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X/Alex Haley
9. Why We Can't Wait Martin Luther King Jr.
10. Death of Innocence Till-Mobley, Chris Benson
TOP 10 BOOKS RECOMMENDED FOR BLACK FOLKS

Top ten books Visit our website WWW.AFRIWARE.NET to view our "TOP 10 BOOKS RECOMMENDED FOR BLACK FOLKS" list. Build your library for the generations to come with these classic MUST READS. We also have a complete 1 page list of books available on our website for your longterm use. Books that give honor to our ancestral legacies, give insight into our cultural responsibility, and, reflect the gifts given to the world, make reading a healing and liberating tonic for the mind. Please feel free to ask our friendly staff about a synopsis of the books to assist in making your decision.
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Directions From Downtown Chicago

Afri-Ware - 266 W. Lake St. - is located 1 block E. of Ridgeland in Oak Park across from Dominick's grocery store.

Take I290 (Eisenhower) West to Austin Exit (exit is on Left hand side).

Turn Right (North) on Austin to Lake Street

Turn Left (West) on Lake about 2 1/2 blocks to 266 W. Lake

Store is on North side of street.

Parking is FREE directly in front of store and around the corner.

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Afri-Ware Books, All Natural Bath and Body items, Gifts, and Cultural Events, Inc.

266 W. Lake St. Oak Park, IL 60302 708-524-8398 / 708-524-8397 (fax)

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