BUFFALO, N.Y. — Teaching kids about our differences and our similarities, that’s part of the mission of Zeneta and Zaire’s Book Club, an effort started by the mother of one of the people who survived the Tops mass shooting.
Zaire Goodman was an employee at Tops of Jefferson when he was shot on May 14. Since then, he and his mother, Zeneta Everhart, have been collecting books to help teach kids about racism and expose them to different cultures.
Thousands of books were donated.
On Thursday night, they held a book reading at Highmark Stadium for kids from Boys and Girls Clubs in Buffalo and Orchard Park.
"Helping to just spread the word about how important it is for diversity in education,” Everhart said. “And then it's just simple reading books, right? It's important that books depict different types of people because we have to let children see the world differently."
The children received books to take home with them.
Zeneta and Zaire’s Book Club will continue to have more events like this where they give books to kids across the region.
