FORTE House to YOUR House: July-August 2022

From FORTE House
to YOUR House
Issue #17

July/August, 2022

Thank You to SparkNJ for Supporting FORTE House! 

Last month, we received notice that SparkNJ selected FORTE House to receive one of its Annual Equity Grants. Briefly: SparkNJ awards annual Equity Grants through the Community Foundation of New Jersey. They provide financial support for Black-led charitable, community, and civic organizations in northern New Jersey, supporting organizations that are already fulfilling their mission but are in need of additional operating funds to continue and grow their work."
We are inspired to keep going--and growing--our impact through FORTE House! Thank you SparkNJ!

Professor Michael Mitchell on Learning and Teaching
Criminal and Social Justice 
 

In this month's guest blog, Professor Michael Mitchell traces his career from first-hand experience working in a Texas jail, to developing a more critical and nuanced view as he earned his PhD. Now an Assistant Professor at The College of New Jersey, Dr. Mitchell uses his position to encourage students, and the public at large, to see people who experience incarceration as "human beings who deserve respect, who have dignity, who have a voice." 

What's on YOUR Summer Reading List?
 

Great reading is just an air-conditioned library away. Let us know your favorite summer reading: send an email to info@njfortehouse.org -- we'll share suggestions in our next issue.
Your Journey Beyond the Cell: Pre-Release Manual for People Incarcerated in New Jersey by Tia L. Ryans and Karen B. Kaplan (non-fiction -- order it here! https://www.allofuspublishing.org/)
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family   Keepsake by Tiya Miles (memoir)
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (fiction)
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (nonfiction/memoir)
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (fiction)
Becoming Nicole: The Extraordinary Transformation of an Ordinary Family by Amy Ellis Nutt (nonfiction)
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain (history)
The Perseverance by Ray Antrobus (poetry)
The Deep by Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes (rap song turned novella/sci-fi/fantasy)
The Black Girl's Guide to Financial Freedom: Build Wealth, Retire Early, and Live the Life of Your Dreams by Paris Woods (nonfiction)
What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing by Oprah Winfrey, Bruce D. Perry (nonfiction)
Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking by Dr. Caroline Leaf (nonfiction)
Anything by Toni Morrison--especially, in the summer, her fiction 
Anything by Octavia E. Butler (sci-fi/fantasy)
 

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