Shortly after the pandemic lockdown in 2020, the Kessler Keener Foundation launched two separate virtual book clubs to continue our learning. If you are interested in joining, please email Ed Keener at edmakeener@gmail.com.

Books are selected by each book club based on recommendations from the group.

Currently reading:

• Tuesdays at 10am, Carry Forth the Stories by Rodney Frey (2017)

• Thursdays at 10am, Do the Work!: An Antiracist Activity Book by W. Kamau Bell & Kate Schatz (2022)

“Reading and discussing together creates a community of caring and much deeper understandings of Black and Brown peoples.” - Ed Keener, Board President

Books we’ve read:

• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

• How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

• Unlearning the Language of Conquest: Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America by Don Trent Jacobs

• We Were Eight Years in Power by T. Coates

• The Indigenous People's History of the United States by R. Dunbar Ortiz

• The Line Becomes a River by F. Cantu

• Caste by I.Wilkerson

• Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by D. Irving

• Colorizing Restorative Justice, edited by E. Valandra

• Braiding Sweetgrass by R. Wall Kimmerer

• The Kingdom and the Republic: Sovereign Hawai’i and the Early United States by Noelani Artista

• Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal by Velma Wallis

• The Weiser Indians: Shoshoni Peacemakers by Hank Corless