Book Club Meeting & Cookie Swap Party 🍪📚: Black AF History by Michael Harriot

Join us for our final 2025 gathering as we close out the year — and our time at Darby Park — with a celebration of sisterhood, stories, and something sweet!

We’ll dive into Michael Harriot’s bold and brilliant retelling of American history through a Black lens, then keep the good vibes going with our annual Holiday Cookie Swap. Bring a dozen of your favorite cookies to share (homemade or store-bought — we don’t judge!).

This meeting will also include a short reflection on our reading journey this year and a sneak peek at what’s coming in 2026 when we move to our new home at Lore Bookstore in Leimert Park, starting January 2026.

📖 About the Book (from Goodreads):
America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower building a new nation. It is George Washington’s cherry tree and Abraham Lincoln’s log cabin. It is the fantastic tale of slaves that spontaneously teleported themselves here with nothing but strong backs and negro spirituals. It is a sugarcoated legend based on an almost true story.
It should come as no surprise that the dominant narrative of American history is blighted with errors and oversights—after all, history books were written by white men with their perspectives at the forefront. It could even be said that the devaluation and erasure of the Black experience is as American as apple pie.
In Black AF History, Michael Harriot presents a more accurate version of American history. Combining unapologetically provocative storytelling with meticulous research based on primary sources as well as the work of pioneering Black historians, scholars, and journalists, Harriot removes the white sugarcoating from the American story, placing Black people squarely at the center. With incisive wit, Harriot speaks hilarious truth to oppressive power, subverting conventional historical narratives with little-known stories about the experiences of Black Americans. From the African Americans who arrived before 1619 to the unenslavable bandit who inspired America’s first police force, this long-overdue corrective provides a revealing look into our past that is as urgent as it is necessary. For too long, we have refused to acknowledge that American history is white history. Not this one. This history is Black AF.

✨ When: Saturday, December 6, 2025, at 1:30 PM PT
✨ Where: Darby Park, 3400 W Arbor Vitae St, Inglewood, CA
✨ What to Bring: Your book notes, your cookies, and/or your Mocha Girl energy!

Get the Book - https://amzn.to/43z6e0g

💡 You don’t have to finish the book to join the discussion — and yes, bring a friend!

Let’s end 2025 on a high note — with laughter, learning, and cookies.