Asha Bandale and Patrisse Khan-Cullors will be in conversation with Rashad Robinson at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with Greenlight Books on Jan. 15 to discuss “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.” Courtesy of St. Martin’s Press By Natasha Soto — In her new memoir “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir,” written with Asha Bandale, Patrisse Khan-Cullors reinforces the famous…
From one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, who helped turn a hashtag into global movement, comes a poetic memoir and reflection on humanity co-authored with award-winning author, journalist and activist, Asha Bandele. Necessary and timely, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir…
By Constance Grady — We Were Eight Years in Power, the new book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, is not precisely new. It’s a collection of eight articles Coates wrote for the Atlantic, starting in 2007 during Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, concluding this year with the start of Donald Trump’s administration, and including some of Coates’s greatest hits, including his much-lauded 2014 article “The Case for Reparations.” What’s new is that each…
Paul Butler talks about breaking the “chokehold” on African American men By Sam Fullwood III Early on, in his recently published book, Chokehold [Policing Black Men], Paul Butler states, “[c]ops routinely hurt and humiliate black people because that is what they are paid to do.” It’s a bold and stark claim that Butler, a Georgetown University Law School professor and former federal prosecutor, never backs away from as he challenges…
Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic by Michelle D. Commander, Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism by Charles W. Mills, Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture by Britt Rusert, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World by Rachel Dolezal with Storms Reback…
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