![]() Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination These razor sharp reflections on racialized state violence in America are the fire and the memory our movements need right now."- Robin D. ![]() Mumia Abu-Jamal is one of the most insightful and consequential intellectuals of our era. Mumia Abu-Jamal's painstaking courage, truth-telling, and disinterest in avoiding the reality of American racial life is, as always, honorable."- Alice Walker Many of these ancestors are buried beneath Wall Street. In this brilliant, painful, factual and useful book, we see to whom our lives have not mattered: the profit driven Euro-Americans who enslaved and worked our ancestors to death within a few years, then murdered them and bought replacements. This memory is the antidote to the despair that seizes one of my generation when we hear the words 'Black Lives Matter.' We want to shout: Of course they do! To you, especially. "I was fortunate to grow up in a community in which it was apparent that our lives mattered. ![]() An excellent companion to Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Ava DuVernay's documentary 13th."? Library Journal, Starred review "A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and inequalities, social movements, the criminal justice system, and African American history. ![]()
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