The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

"Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx" is an honest, heartfelt, and deeply moving story that follows the lives of an extended family.  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc conducted extensive research and interviews with Lourdes, her daughter Jessica, daughter-in-law Coco, and all of their boyfriends and children over a 10-year period.

LeBlanc allows the family members to tell their stories as they see and live them, and in the process, pushes past statistics to put real, human faces on issues of poverty, teenage motherhood, abuse, and the drug world.

The Civil Rights Book Club aims to provide context and provoke discussion about today's top social justice concerns. Each week, we profile a book, a movie, or other media that represent the diversity of the contemporary social justice movement. You can help support The Leadership Conference by purchasing Book Club selections through the Amazon.com link on our website.