Bookmarks, our local gem of a nonprofit bookstore, is currently promoting a unique summer reading list that emphasizes an important cultural movement rather than guilty-pleasure beach reading or between-school-year fluffery. Its communitywide reading program, âBook with Purpose,â concentrates on the theme of anti-racism with titles like âStamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in Americaâ by Ibram X. Kendi.
The Forsyth County Public Library has also taken a weightier turn with adult reading recommendations that include âChildren of the Land: A Memoirâ by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo and âFour Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019â edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain.