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The Will Book Club (WBC), an initiative of the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation (WJSFF), announced today a new collaboration with the CAA Foundation’s Ready Set mentorship program. The initiative is designed to launch reading groups for its volunteers centered around the themes within Smith’s memoir, “Will by Will Smith.” Those themes include developing healthy relationships, being your authentic self, harnessing the power of the mind and developing habits for success. The reading g...

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There are lots of different things that people are doing. for example, supporting political prisoners, attending court hearings to show their support, and doing a lot of legal work. building up public networks, trying to organise reading groups. these are the tactics that people living in authoritarian regimes would use. less provocative, more convoluted. still remain a public life, and i think that is crucial for todays hong kong. that was nathan lawther, a pro—democracy hong kong campaigner ...

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  How to have Book Talk Prison Reading Groups (PRG) support informal book groups and reading for pleasure. Before lockdown we supported over 45 groups in more than 40 prisons nationwide. Groups themselves choose the book they read and discuss, and members get a new copy to keep. Covid put a temporary stop to face to face meetings, but quite a few of our groups are still going strong with brilliant help from library and prison staff. The chosen book is delivered in-cell and readers provide writ...

So thats when i immediately left. >> what about little jonathan who was in his classroom standing next to nolan and jonathan is the one who didnt survive. do you know jonathan? do you know if they were friends? >> yes. as a matter of fact, every thursday i would go into the classroom and i would help miss smith out with reading with the kids or math or whatever she would ask me to do. so we would sit in our reading groups and jonathan would be in that group and he would read and we would say goo...

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In there and dig deeper. not take a break because youre traumatized. >> by doing all of this, by setting the reading groups to formulate a response to the implications, theyre saying we didnt like the decisions and columbia university should not put that out there in their classrooms. thats not for them to decide and not to dictate policy on. we have to go but some people are saying bah hum bug to a dazzling display of good lights in one neighborhood. ♪

Reoffer several hundred of these reading groups on every subject under the sun. and the whole idea that students can decide to take it or not to take it. its a voluntary course. >> if they take it, what are they going to get out of it? >> i think they are going to get a sense about how race, how religion, and how politics have influenced our country over the last three or four centuries. >> with the nexus being around president obama. is he going to be -- >> -- its even earlier than that three o...