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Book and Movie Club: Passing

(Sponsored by Becoming Beloved Community)

Our special book and movie club meets monthly, alternating between discussing books and movies, featuring titles that will deepen our understanding of racial justice. We include fiction and nonfiction, drama and documentaries.

Join us on Monday, February 21 at 7:00 p.m. on Zoom.

Passing, based on the 1929 novel by Nella Larsen, tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, who can ‘pass’ as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in late 1920s New York. As the two women reconnect, Passing becomes a riveting examination of obsession, repression and the lies people tell themselves and others to protect their carefully constructed realities.