March Book Club
Sun, Mar 23
|New Orleans
Let's Talk! Have you ever read a book that demands that you discuss it with someone? Here's your chance to discuss great books while enjoying a sweet treat.
Time & Location
Mar 23, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
New Orleans, 108 Harrison Ave, New Orleans, LA 70124, USA
About the Event
We don’t want to live in a society in turmoil. In fact, 93 percent of people in the US want to reduce divisiveness, and 86 percent believe it’s possible to disagree in a healthy way. Yet with increasing political and social fragmentation, many of us don’t know how to move past our differences. Civil rights scholar john a. powell presents an actionable path through “bridging” that helps us communicate, coexist, and imagine a new story for our shared future where we all belong.
With inimitable warmth and vision, powell offers a framework for building cohesion and solidarity between disparate beliefs and backgrounds. Bridging is more than a discrete list of actions to follow―it’s a mindset we can develop to help us foster belonging and connection. Key elements of the bridging mindset include:
• Understanding how deeply “othering” shapes our world, priming us to see difference of any kind―race, gender, political…