Black American Book Club honors founder during meeting

JACKSON, Tenn. — Thursday, the Black American Book Club dedicated their meeting to their founder and shared this month’s read.

The club met Thursday afternoon at the Jackson-Madison County Public Library. In addition to book discussion, the club chose this month’s meeting to honor their founder, Herbert Slack, who started the club with his wife almost 30 years ago.

The session featured an in-depth conversation of this month’s book, Two Trains Running by August Wilson. Each book per month is reviewed by a member and this book was reviewed by Sue Ann Barnes.

She told us the most impactful message she got from the book.

“Life for Black people in the city or in the county or anywhere else was still very difficult and of course it was at the beginning of many of the movements to change that. It has changed but not as much as it needs to,” said Barnes.

The book club is open to anyone who enjoys books and being around others. They meet about once a month at the Jackson-Madison County Library.

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