Urban SUN: Black Voices Book Club

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Book Club

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Adults
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Urban SUN: Black Voices Book Club- a monthly book club since September 2020- is devoted to creating meaningful conversations about race by exploring works of contemporary and historical African-American authors. Discussions are led by Sun Prairie residents, Donna Mackey and Marilyn Ruffin. Get ready to get uncomfortable and get real!

This month's book selection is A Soldier's Life: A Black Woman's Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion by Edna W. Cummings. Copies of the book will be available at the library's Welcome Desk for those who register. Click here for more information about Urban SUN.


We are delighted to welcome the author, Col. Edna W. Cummings, as a special guest for this discussion!

A Fayetteville, NC, native and Army brat, Edna W. Cummings had a distinguished 25-year military career. She is the Vice President of Windsor Group, LLC and an Army Reserve Ambassador (a Special Government Employee equivalent to a two star general in the Armed forces). She is the author of A Soldier’s Life: A Black Woman’s Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion (University of Virginia Press, May 2025). She championed the Congressional effort to enact passage of the Six Triple Eight Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2021, the nation’s highest civilian honor. She also co-produced two award winning documentaries about the 6888th Battalion, The Six Triple Eight, and Two Wars, No Mail, Low Morale.  

Col. Cummings is a distinguished alumni from Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, and its Army Training Reserve Officer Corps program. She received a master’s degree in the Foundations of Education from Troy State University, Troy, AL, and a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA. Her highest military award is the Defense Superior Service Medal, and she has received numerous state and local recognitions for her Six Triple Eight advocacy.  

Her interests are World War II military women from the Black diaspora, military and veteran families, and the impacts of veterans on geo-politics.

The Urban SUN book club meets via Zoom. Please register below to attend the discussion, and Zoom details will be emailed to you.

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