RootsAction Education Fund is starting a free monthly online book club At 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. ET on the first Wednesday of every month (go ahead and mark your calendar), you can spend an hour asking your questions of the author of one of the most useful recent books for progressive activism. We'll post information about each upcoming book and author well ahead of time, to give you a chance to acquire and read the book beforehand. Just check: teachinnetwork.org/bookclubs September: Black Bodies, White Gazes  Join us for the September 2025 online book club on September 3 at 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. ET with George Yancy, author of Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in America. The event is free, but it's up to you to buy the book or borrow it from a friend or library. “Black Bodies, White Gazes is academically rigorous, elegantly written, and theoretically sophisticated, and Yancy is to be commended for this examination of discursive practices of whiteness in everyday life.”—MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. The book offers clear history and recent headlines, including coverage of police murders and brutality against Black Americans and the rise of white nationalism. Sign up at teachinnetwork.org/bookclubs TAKE ACTION NOW If you live in a state that still has a loophole for slavery in its Constitution, email your state legislators here. October: They Poisoned the World  Join us for the October 2025 online book club on October 1 at 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. ET with Mariah Blake, author of They Poisoned the World. The event is free, but it's up to you to buy the book or borrow it from a friend or library. “Riveting and horrifying . . . Blake’s deft chronicle of one of the greatest moral scandals of our time [is] a book that none of us can afford to miss.” –The Washington Post They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals by journalist Mariah Blake is a landmark investigation of the chemical industry’s decades-long campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals, told through the story of a small town on the frontlines of an epic public health crisis. Sign up at teachinnetwork.org/bookclubs TAKE ACTION NOW You can do something right now: email your Congress members not to privatize our government! November: America, América  Join us for the November 2025 online book club on November 5 at 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. ET with Greg Grandin, author of America, América. The event is free, but it's up to you to buy the book or borrow it from a friend or library. “An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez.” —Daniel Geary, The Mark Pigott Professor in U.S. History, Trinity College, for The Irish Times “Historian Greg Grandin’s audacious new book . . . will, for many readers, upend conceptions of the hemisphere . . . each day’s headlines further confirm the deep-rooted patterns that his brilliant and urgently needed history traces . . . America, América pursues its course across the centuries with verve, superb pacing, and impressive delicacy of touch.” —Esther Allen, Los Angeles Review of Books Sign up at teachinnetwork.org/bookclubs TAKE ACTION NOW Here's something you can do right away: Tell Congress to abolish ICE. | 
