The Farming of Bones, historical fiction by Edwidge Danticat Post Composed by Ralph Edwards   The S.U.R.E. Diversity Book Club provides opportunities to explore and learn the multiple expressions and cultural dynamics of Diversity and acknowledge international days or months dedicated to illuminating the challenges and experiences of a particular population.  Both HUMAN RIGHTS DAY and INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN occur in December.   The Far

Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer (… a braid of stories meant to heal our relationship with the world.)   Post Composed by Ralph Edwards   The S.U.R.E. Book Club was formed in response to S.U.R.E.’s effort to acknowledge and celebrate various national ethnic and cultural holidays: Autism Awareness, Black History, Women’s History, Hispanic Heritage, Native American Heritage, PRIDE, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Developmental Disabilities Month, Arab Americ

Post Composed by Ralph Edwards Beautiful Country,  a memoir by Qian Julie Wang (October 28 is National Immigrants Day)  What a country!    What a beautiful country!   With the exception of the original people who settled here a thousand years ago, tilled the land and formed nations whose precepts were incorporated into the founding principles of the United States and the enslaved Africans, stolen, shackled and first brought ashore in 1619, all of the denizens of this great na

Post Composed by Ralph Edwards First, THANK YOU  to Rachel Shiryayeva for founding the S.U.R.E. Book Club, curating the book list,...

Post composed by Ralph Edwards The August book selection for the S.U.R.E. Book Club -  The Souls of Black Folk,  by W.E.B. DuBois - is...

Post composed by Ralph Edwards   The 1840 U.S. Census provides data of the number of Lynn’s nearly 10,000 citizens who were “Deaf and...

Book blog #9: May 2025 Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From Even though some of our regular members were missing, our book club was at its largest...

Book Blog #8 April 28, 2025: Shubeik Lubeik At once fantastical and down-to-earth, Shubeik Lubeik is the debut graphic novel of Egyptian...

Book Blog #7 March 2025 book:  All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis Essays edited by   Ayana Elizabeth...

Book blog #6, February 2025 Book: The Trayvon Generation  by Elizabeth Alexander Post by Rachel Shiryayeva At our February gathering, we...

Book blog post #5 January 28, 2025: The Autobiography of Malcolm X  as told to Alex Haley “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for...

Monday December 16, 2024: Fourth S.U.R.E. Diversity Book Club meeting Book: In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez Note 1: We...

I remember Malcolm. He was our Prince and Martin’s twin.  Their synergized voice expressed our hope, our determination to be free ........

In our November meeting honoring Native American Heritage Month, the S.U.R.E. Diversity Book Club gathered to talk about Poet Warrior ,...

October 2024 Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast Post by Rachel Shiryayeva - S.U.R.E. Diversity book club organizer...

Written by the S.U.R.E. Diversity book club organizer and curator, Rachel Shiryayeva “Back then, all we wanted was the simplest things:...

Each month Rachel Shiryayeva, a S.U.R.E. Diversity member, will post an entry on the book discussed during the month. Check back here...

S.U.R.E. Diversity (Swampscott Unites, Respects, and Embraces Diversity) stands in solidarity with the Asian American Community. We...

S.U.R.E. is aware that hate incidents are on the rise in Swampscott. We are saddened and angered by these atrocious acts. These acts...

S.U.R.E. (Swampscott Unites, Respects, and Embraces diversity[1]) stands in solidarity with the Black Community. We share the outrage in...