When They Call You a Terrorist
A Black Lives Matter Memoir
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نقد و بررسی
August 1, 2017
Artist and social justice advocate Khan-Cullors is also an NAACP History Maker, having cofounded Black Lives Matter with Opal Tometi and Alicia Garza after the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin. Poet/activist bandele, author of the best-selling memoir The Prisoner's Wife, is a senior director at the Drug Policy Alliance. Together they've written a memoir that celebrates social activism as rooted in love for all humanity and particularly those most vulnerable. With a national tour.
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Starred review from November 1, 2017
Khan-Cullors, a self-described artist, organizer, freedom fighter as well as a Fulbright scholar and recipient of the Sidney Peace Prize, recounts, with coauthor bandele, her personal experiences and those as a founder of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Khan-Cullors delineates the harsh realities she faced growing up in Los Angeles in the late 1990s and early 2000s, from her mother working three jobs and still not able to earn a living wage to the grievous harm the war on drugs did to so many young black men, including her relatives and friends. She focuses on her fight to support one of her brothers, who showed signs of mental illness and received no professional help until after he endured multiple school suspensions, criminal arrests, and police torture. Khan-Cullors credits her success to the education she received in charter arts schools and with community activist groups. She then chronicles how she, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tomrti use social media, the arts, and civil activism to respond to the killings of two young black men, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, and how that led to the founding of Black Lives Matter. With great candor about her complex personal life, Khan-Cullors has created a memoir as compelling as a page-turning novel.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: This topical and unique look inside the Black Lives Matter movement will be supported by a major marketing effort and a 250,000 first print run.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)
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