Read Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?

Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?

Mumia Abu-Jamal

4.9/5 (33112 ratings)

Description:“This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States. This is the book we need right now to find our bearings in the chaos."--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States“[Mumia’s] writings are a wake-up call. He is a voice from our prophetic tradition, speaking to us here, now, lovingly, urgently.”—Cornel West“He allows us to reflect upon the fact that transformational possibilities often emerge where we least expect them.”—Angela Y. DavisIn December 1981, Mumia Abu Jamal was shot and beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find himself shackled to a hospital bed, accused of killing a cop. He was convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that Amnesty International has denounced as failing to meet the minimum standards of judicial fairness.In Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?, Mumia gives voice to the many people of color who have fallen to police bullets or racist abuse, and offers the post-Ferguson generation advice on how to address police abuse in the United States. This collection of his radio commentaries on the topic features an in-depth essay written especially for this book to examine the history of policing in America, with its origins in the white slave patrols of the antebellum South and an explicit mission to terrorize the country’s black population. Applying a personal, historical, and political lens, Mumia provides a righteously angry and calmly principled radical black perspective on how racist violence is tearing our country apart and what must be done to turn things around.Mumia Abu-Jamal is author of many books, including Death Blossoms, Live from Death Row, All Things Censored, and Writing on the Wall.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?. To get started finding Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 144

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: City Lights Publishers

Release: 2017

ISBN

Description: “This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States. This is the book we need right now to find our bearings in the chaos."--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States“[Mumia’s] writings are a wake-up call. He is a voice from our prophetic tradition, speaking to us here, now, lovingly, urgently.”—Cornel West“He allows us to reflect upon the fact that transformational possibilities often emerge where we least expect them.”—Angela Y. DavisIn December 1981, Mumia Abu Jamal was shot and beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find himself shackled to a hospital bed, accused of killing a cop. He was convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that Amnesty International has denounced as failing to meet the minimum standards of judicial fairness.In Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?, Mumia gives voice to the many people of color who have fallen to police bullets or racist abuse, and offers the post-Ferguson generation advice on how to address police abuse in the United States. This collection of his radio commentaries on the topic features an in-depth essay written especially for this book to examine the history of policing in America, with its origins in the white slave patrols of the antebellum South and an explicit mission to terrorize the country’s black population. Applying a personal, historical, and political lens, Mumia provides a righteously angry and calmly principled radical black perspective on how racist violence is tearing our country apart and what must be done to turn things around.Mumia Abu-Jamal is author of many books, including Death Blossoms, Live from Death Row, All Things Censored, and Writing on the Wall.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?. To get started finding Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?

Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?

More Books

Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal (City Lights Open Media)

Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal (City Lights Open Media)

Articles on Black Panther Party, Including: Fred Hampton, Fred Hampton, Jr., the Murder of Fred Hampton, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Assata Shakur, Bobby Seale, H. Rap Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Hutton, Stokely Carmichael

Articles on Black Panther Party, Including: Fred Hampton, Fred Hampton, Jr., the Murder of Fred Hampton, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Assata Shakur, Bobby Seale, H. Rap Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Hutton, Stokely Carmichael

On a Move: The Story of Mumia Abu-Jamal

On a Move: The Story of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Live from Death Row: A Radio Reporter's Impassioned Writings on Injustice, Racism, and Prison Brutalities

Live from Death Row: A Radio Reporter's Impassioned Writings on Injustice, Racism, and Prison Brutalities

The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal

The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal

The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America

The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America

The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Life in the Balance (Open Media Series)

The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Life in the Balance (Open Media Series)

Race for Justice: Mumia Abu-Jamal's Fight Against the Death Penalty

Race for Justice: Mumia Abu-Jamal's Fight Against the Death Penalty

We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party

We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party