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SUMMARY:Michael S. Gordon Talk & Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, June 6 at 5pm for an evening with author Michael S. Gordon as he joins friend and moderator Lisette Valle as discuss his book\, C.E.A.S.E. for Equity: Cultivating Empathy And Sustaining Ecosystems for Equity. \nThis is a ticketed event. $55 includes the following:\n* One book\n* Q&A and book signing\n* Catered meal from Trap Chicken \nAbout the Book:\nC.E.A.S.E. for Equity isn’t about red or blue\, left or right\, or where you live – whether in the heart of a bustling city or the quiet of a rural town. It’s not about political affiliation\, geographic location\, or drawing lines between who is right and who is wrong. It’s not asking you to ignore the past but to confront it with courage and compassion. At its core\, this book is about cultivating empathy and sustaining ecosystems for equity – elements\, habitats\, interactions that support all people\, not just a privileged few. It requires you to see the humanity in every person you encounter. It encourages you to break free from narratives that divide. It challenges you to begin the long-overdue process of collective healing and liberation. \nC.E.A.S.E. for Equity invites every reader to take personal responsibility – for your choices\, your language\, and your actions. This book encourages you to contribute with the intent of reforming the social and economic structures that allow prejudice\, oppression\, exclusion\, and erasure to persist. It’s a vision rooted not in blame but in accountability\, transformation\, and love. Above all\, C.E.A.S.E. for Equity is about peace\, justice\, and a sincere concern for the human soul. It’s a call to walk and work together – not simply as acquaintances or allies\, but as accomplices seeking a more just and compassionate world for all humanity.
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/michael-s-gordon-talk-book-signing/
LOCATION:Kindred Thoughts Bookstore\, 1001 Main St\, Ste #8\, Bridgeport\, CT\, 06604\, United States
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SUMMARY:Markers & Mocktails: Mind\, Body\, & Soul
DESCRIPTION:Markers & Mocktails: Mind\, Body\, & Soul: A Self-Care Coloring Book \nGet ready to unleash your creativity with coloring and mocktails at our adult coloring night out – a perfect way to relax and unwind! \nKick off the month with a fun night of coloring and mocktails! \nLadies\, come vibe with us on Friday\, June 5th at 6pm for a relaxing evening of adult coloring featuring pages from Mind\, Body\, & Soul: A Self-Care Coloring Book for Black Women. \nWe’ll have pages and coloring supplies\, but feel free to bring your own favorite coloring utensils. First come\, first pick of designs; markers\, mocktails\, music and chill vibes included. \n$25 gets you in on the fun! 🤩
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/markers-mocktails-mind-body-soul/
LOCATION:Kindred Thoughts Bookstore\, 1001 Main St\, Ste #8\, Bridgeport\, CT\, 06604\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260530T170000
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Africulture with Michael Carter\, Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, May 30th at 5pm as we welcome 11th generation farmer and author\, Michael Carter Jr\, as he discusses his new book\, Africulture: How the Principles\, Practices\, Plants\, and People of African Descent Have Shaped American Agriculture. \nMichael Carter Jr. is an eleventh-generation farmer and is the fifth generation to farm at Carter Farms\, his family’s century farm in Orange County\, Virginia\, where he gives workshops on how to grow and market ethnic vegetables. In addition\, he runs Africulture\, a nonprofit dedicated to educating and expounding upon the principles\, practices\, plants and people of African descent that have contributed to agriculture. He sits on the board of directors of the Montpelier Descendants Committee\, Orange County African American Historical Society\, Virginia Food Systems Council\, American Climate Partners\, and Virginia Agrarian Trust. He also serves as a fellow for the Center for Food Systems and Community Transformation. Michael was recognized as a 2020 Audubon Naturalist Society Taking Nature Black Regional Environmental Champion\, the 2020 VSU Small Farm Outreach Agent of the year and Future Harvest Casa Farmer of the Foodshed for 2021. He acquired an agricultural economics degree from North Carolina A&T State University and has worked in Ghana\, Kenya\, and Israel as an agronomist and organic agricultural consultant. He presently consults with numerous governments\, organizations\, institutions\, and individuals throughout the region and nation on food access\, food security/insecurity\, market outreach\, social and economic parity/equity/evaluation programs\, racial understanding\, immersion\, history\, and cultural training\, among other areas. Michael also teaches and expounds on the contributions of Africans and African Americans to agriculture worldwide and trains students\, educators\, and professionals in African cultural understanding\, racial literacy\, empathy\, and implicit bias recognition. He teaches his course on Africulture at the University of Virginia in the school of Environmental Thought and Practice.
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/author-talk-africulture-with-michael-carter-jr/
LOCATION:Kindred Thoughts Bookstore\, 1001 Main St\, Ste #8\, Bridgeport\, CT\, 06604\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260529T180000
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SUMMARY:Community Puzzle Night: Chi Town Chic
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Fri\, May 29\, 2026 at 6:00 PM for a fun-filled evening of puzzle-solving with your neighbors and friends. This month’s puzzle is an ode to the Chi\, “Chi Town Chic.” \nThis event is a great way to relax\, socialize\, and challenge your brain. No experience necessary – all skill levels are welcome! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to connect with other puzzlers in the community and enjoy a night of collaborative fun. See you there! \nSnacks and beverages provided. And we’ll be spinning tunes from Chicago natives all night! Feel free to bring your favorite snack and bev! $5 gets you in on the fun!
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/community-puzzle-night-chi-town-chic/
LOCATION:Kindred Thoughts Bookstore\, 1001 Main St\, Ste #8\, Bridgeport\, CT\, 06604\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260517T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260517T153000
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SUMMARY:A Year of Toni Morrison: Beloved
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an insightful journey through Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” – a year-long exploration of her powerful literary canon. \nPoet Sonia Sanchez said of her friend Toni Morrison\, “In order to survive\, you should re-read Toni every ten years because every ten or 15 years\, we have to re-imagine ourselves on this American landscape. You won’t survive if you don’t do that.” We believe now is the time. Join us on a year-long journey through Toni Morrison’s remarkable literary legacy.
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/a-year-of-toni-morrison-beloved/
LOCATION:Kindred Thoughts Bookstore\, 1001 Main St\, Ste #8\, Bridgeport\, CT\, 06604\, United States
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: John Mills - The Narrative of Primus
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, May 16th at 5pm as we welcome CT based author\, John Mills as he shares his first novel\, The Narrative of Primus: A Lineage Woven into American History. John will also discuss the genealogy process for those who are interested. \nAbout the book: The Narrative of Primus uncovers the remarkable\, nearly forgotten story of a ten-year-old boy taken from his mother’s bedside in West Africa and forced aboard a slave ship bound for America. That boy\, Primus\, survived the Middle Passage\, endured decades of enslavement in colonial Connecticut\, raised a family\, and through faith\, resilience\, and grace\, laid a foundation that would ripple across generations. \nDrawing on rarely cited historical sources including an embedded first-person narrative hidden since 1824 in the writings of Lydia Sigourney\, John Mills reveals Primus as more than a footnote to slavery or a name in a ledger. He restores him as a father\, a church member\, a scholar of scripture\, a community figure\, and a man whose voice still echoes across three centuries. \nThrough meticulous archival research\, Mills traces the lives of Primus’s descendants from the Revolutionary War\, where his son Job fought for American independence while enslaved\, through the Civil War\, where Sgt. Daniel Stanley Lathrop served with the famed 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry\, and into the twentieth century\, where the lineage continued to serve in both World Wars and National Guard militias shut out of state support. \nPart genealogy\, part social history\, and part personal journey\, The Narrative of Primus blends historical storytelling with the author’s lived experience as a Black American and direct descendant of enslaved ancestors. Mills interrogates myths surrounding American liberty\, challenges long-held racial narratives\, and re-centers Black families whose sacrifices helped shape the nation. \nThe Narrative of Primus is a compelling and deeply personal contribution to African American history\, slavery studies\, New England history\, Connecticut history\, genealogy\, and the American story. It reminds us that America was built not only by the celebrated\, but by the unseen-and that their descendants are still here to tell the story. \nPurchase the book here.
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/reading-the-classics-the-wedding/
LOCATION:Kindred Thoughts Bookstore\, 1001 Main St\, Ste #8\, Bridgeport\, CT\, 06604\, United States
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SUMMARY:The 1619 Project: Community Conversations: INHERITANCE
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, May 9 at 5:00PM Eastern for our 11th installment of The 1619 Project: Community Conversations. \nThere are many grievances regarding the actions taken by the current administration—too many to list individually. Many of you view our bookstore as a safe space to express your concerns and fears. In response\, we have been active listeners and have provided support in various forms. \nTo help galvanize our voices\, we’ve launched Community Conversations\, a monthly gathering to discuss the impact of current events. Using The 1619 Project as our guide\, we will focus on the themes of each chapter to deepen our understanding of what is happening and how we can better equip ourselves during this challenging time. Where possible\, we will have subject matter experts to lead the discussions\, but we will also rely on each other’s insights.
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/the-1619-project-community-conversations-inheritance/
LOCATION:Kindred Thoughts Bookstore\, 1001 Main St\, Ste #8\, Bridgeport\, CT\, 06604\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T160000
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SUMMARY:Brothers & Books: Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray
DESCRIPTION:Join Brothers & Books on Sunday\, April 26th at 2pm for a discussion regarding Victoria Christopher Murray’s best-selling novel\, Harlem Rhapsody. Brothers & Books is a member-led book and discussion group for men of color of all ages. This book club is the ideal forum to exchange thoughts and perspectives\, to deepen your sense of community\, and to diversify the selection of books on your shelf. \nBrothers & Books looks forward to building a strong community of men who can pour into each other\, centered around books and discussions that build and inspire. Food and beverages are welcome! \nAbout Harlem Rhapsody: She found the literary voices that would inspire the world…. The extraordinary story of the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance\, written by Victoria Christopher Murray\, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Personal Librarian. \nIn 1919\, a high school teacher from Washington\, D.C arrives in Harlem excited to realize her lifelong dream. Jessie Redmon Fauset has been named the literary editor of The Crisis. The first Black woman to hold this position at a preeminent Negro magazine\, Jessie is poised to achieve literary greatness. But she holds a secret that jeopardizes it all. \nW. E. B. Du Bois\, the founder of The Crisis\, is not only Jessie’s boss\, he’s her lover. And neither his wife\, nor their fourteen-year-age difference can keep the two apart. Amidst rumors of their tumultuous affair\, Jessie is determined to prove herself. She attacks the challenge of discovering young writers with fervor\, finding sixteen-year-old Countee Cullen\, seventeen-year-old Langston Hughes\, and Nella Larsen\, who becomes one of her best friends. Under Jessie’s leadership\, The Crisis thrives…every African American writer in the country wants their work published there. \nWhen her first novel is released to great acclaim\, it’s clear that Jessie is at the heart of a renaissance in Black music\, theater\, and the arts. She has shaped a generation of literary legends\, but as she strives to preserve her legacy\, she’ll discover the high cost of her unparalleled success.
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/brothers-books-harlem-rhapsody-by-victoria-christopher-murray/
LOCATION:Kindred Thoughts Bookstore\, 1001 Main St\, Ste #8\, Bridgeport\, CT\, 06604\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T153000
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SUMMARY:A Year of Toni Morrison: Tar Baby
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an insightful journey through Toni Morrison’s “Tar Baby” – a year-long exploration of her powerful literary canon. \nPoet Sonia Sanchez said of her friend Toni Morrison\, “In order to survive\, you should re-read Toni every ten years because every ten or 15 years\, we have to re-imagine ourselves on this American landscape. You won’t survive if you don’t do that.” We believe now is the time. Join us on a year-long journey through Toni Morrison’s remarkable literary legacy.
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/a-year-of-toni-morrison-tar-baby/
LOCATION:Kindred Thoughts Bookstore\, 1001 Main St\, Ste #8\, Bridgeport\, CT\, 06604\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T180000
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SUMMARY:Good Girlfriends Book Club: The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
DESCRIPTION:Born from our monthly Summer Reading Series\, a group of smart and funny women came together\, united by their love for books and good company\, and thus the Good Girlfriends Book Club was created. Now we’re inviting you to join the club! \nJoin us on Friday\, April 17th at 6pm as we discuss Shelara’s pick\, The Reformatory by Tananarive Due. \nAbout The Reformatory: \nA gripping\, page-turning “masterpiece” (Joe Hill\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman) set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice\, for the living\, and the dead. \nGracetown\, Florida. \nJune 1950. \nTwelve-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr. is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys\, a reformatory\, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister\, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. \nRobbie has a talent for seeing ghosts\, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing\, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone and Blue\, Robbie is learning not just the rules\, but how to survive. Meanwhile\, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it’s too late. \nThe Reformatory is a “hallucinatory\, haunting\, terrifying\, and moving” (S.A. Cosby\, bestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed) work of historical fiction written as only American Book Award–winning author Tananarive Due could\, by piecing together the life of the relative her family never spoke of and bringing his tragedy and those of so many others at the infamous Dozier School for Boys to the light in this riveting novel. \nPurchase the book here.
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/good-girlfriends-book-club-the-reformatory-by-tananarive-due/
LOCATION:Kindred Thoughts Bookstore\, 1001 Main St\, Ste #8\, Bridgeport\, CT\, 06604\, United States
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SUMMARY:The 1619 Project: Community Conversations: PUNISHMENT
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, April 11 at 5:00PM Eastern for our 10th installment of The 1619 Project: Community Conversations. \nThere are many grievances regarding the actions taken by the current administration—too many to list individually. Many of you view our bookstore as a safe space to express your concerns and fears. In response\, we have been active listeners and have provided support in various forms. \nTo help galvanize our voices\, we’ve launched Community Conversations\, a monthly gathering to discuss the impact of current events. Using The 1619 Project as our guide\, we will focus on the themes of each chapter to deepen our understanding of what is happening and how we can better equip ourselves during this challenging time. Where possible\, we will have subject matter experts to lead the discussions\, but we will also rely on each other’s insights.
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/the-1619-project-community-conversations-punishment/
LOCATION:Kindred Thoughts Bookstore\, 1001 Main St\, Ste #8\, Bridgeport\, CT\, 06604\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260411T140000
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SUMMARY:Author Talk and Autism Workshop with Kesheonia Jones
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, April 11th at 12:00PM for this important\, community-focused discussion about autism from a caregiver’s perspective. \nAuthor and parent of a child on the spectrum\, Kesheonia Jones\, emphasizes the importance of planning for when parents are no longer able to advocate for their children. Through her book\, “The Blueprint: Navigating Care When Life Changes Direction-A Caregiver’s Guide For Families & Advocates\,” Kesheonia will guide us on how caregivers can create an emergency plan binder in case they are incapacitated or no longer with us. \nWe invite everyone to attend\, as some of the best practices shared may also be useful for other family situations. \nCopies of Kesheonia’s book will be available for purchase and signing.
URL:https://www.colorfulbridgeport.com/event/author-talk-and-autism-workshop-with-kesheonia-jones/
LOCATION:Kindred Thoughts Bookstore\, 1001 Main St\, Ste #8\, Bridgeport\, CT\, 06604\, United States
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