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Online Membership
It is FREE. We just require you to read the book prior to the online discussion.

Atlanta Chapter Membership
In order to keep the meetings more personal, the group has decided that membership will not exceed more than twenty members.
To be a successful group member one must be COMMITTED.

• Committed to attending the monthly meetings
• Committed to reading the book selected each month
• Committed to participating in the discussion
• Committed to supporting the group

BWR Meetings
The meetings are held once a month. The group decides upon the location, date, and time of each meeting. Each member is encouraged to host at least one meeting. He has the option to sponsor the refreshments or suggest that the group participate in potluck. Each meeting is designed to bring forth a new experience.

Book Selection
Each month members are encouraged to bring suggested readings for the upcoming month. Suggested readings should be no more than 300 pages.

A synopsis should be included when suggesting a book.
The suggested books are placed in a pool and randomly selected for reading. In some cases the group may strongly suggest a title and unanimously vote on reading that particular book for the month.
The member who recommends the book selected would facilitate the book discussion using his own creative style.

BWR Membership Dues
Monthly dues are $5.00, or $60.00 per year. The money is used to cover all administrative expenses.

New Ideas and Suggestions
If you have any questions, concerns and ideas please contact us:
email: info@brothaswellread.com

Journalist and author Benjaminson (The Story of Motown) attempts valiantly, painstakingly to resurrect the reputation of founding Supreme member Florence Ballard, who left the group early on and descended into litigiousness and alcoholism. Then a reporter with the Detroit Free Press, Benjaminson interviewed Ballard a year before her death in 1976 and elicited a sad story of a starry-eyed, single-minded high school dropout whose dream, and fortune, was co-opted by Berry Gordy's Motown empire. Growing up together in Detroit's black working-class Brewster Projects, gospel-singing Ballard and Mary Wilson first formed the Primettes, joined by Diane (as she was then known) Ross and Betty McGlown, who eventually dropped out. In 1961, the teenagers auditioned for Berry Gordy, who kept them doing backup as they matured, touring with the Motortown Review across country by bus until the newly configured Supremes (Ballard chose the name) had their first hit in 1964 with Where Did Our Love Go? The boom-boom beat coupled with the nasaly sound of Ross's voice prompted Gordy to promote Ross rather than Ballard as lead. Over the Supremes' several heady years in the spotlight, Benjaminson explains in this engaging biography, gobs of money vanished through flimsy contracts and the fingers of unscrupulous managers, costly clothes and glamorous acquaintances, and Ballard's resentment of Ross's ambition and Gordy's manipulation got her fired.

BWR In The Community

Brothas Well Read has partnered with "Boys Who D.A.R.E" to volunteer with them each month with their monthly reading program.

The Boys Who Dream, Achieve, Read and Empower and (D.A.R.E) reading program is a non-profit organization designed to promote literacy in young males residing in Metro Atlanta.

www.boyswhodare.org

BWR Sponsored Links

BookingMatters.com

BoysWhoDare.org

KeithKnows.net

OutWriteBooks.com

Founded in September 2000 in Atlanta, Georgia by Roderick Tate, Brothas Well Read was started to share his passion for reading amongst his friends. He invited several friends to the first meeting, not knowing what to expect. As a result of the strong interest and support, Brothas Well Read was created.

The group consists of African-American men with diverse backgrounds. Each member’s uniqueness and creative energy adds to the group’s success.

Brothas Well Read Book Club is for like-minded African American men to come together to discuss a variety of fiction and non-fiction books. It provides a warm comfortable atmosphere in which we can fellowship, engage in intellectual discussion, and enrich each other’s lives.

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email: info@brothaswellread.com