The August book is The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein. Meet at 2000 Malvern Rd. at 7:00 PM on August 29, 2018.
In The Color of Law (published by Liveright in May 2017), Richard Rothstein argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America—the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities and has contributed to so much recent social strife—is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels.
The Color of Law was designated one of ten finalists on the National Book Awards’ long list for the best nonfiction book of 2017.
Listen to interviews of the author on Fresh Air and a conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates.