Some books that help me make sense of this moment.
The book "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation" by @KeeangaYamahtta is indispensable for understanding the historical and present conditions that have led to the formation of the current resistance movements against State violence. bookshop.org/books/from-bla…
"Breathe: A Letter to My Sons" by @imaniperry is a magically written and brilliant analysis of what it means to come of age in a white supremacist nation. bookshop.org/books/breathe-…
"Are Prisons Obsolete?" by Angela Y. Davis is a landmark text that dares us to imagine an abolitionist future. bookshop.org/books/are-pris…
"Tears We Cannot Stop" by @MichaelEDyson is a necessary text on race relations. Although written to White people, it is a brilliant analysis for everyone. amazon.com/Tears-We-Canno…
"Freedom Dreams" by Robin D.G. Kelley is a classic text that spotlights the promises and possibilities of the Black radical imagination. bookshop.org/books/freedom-…
You can't understand state violence without reading "Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color" by Andrea Ritchie (@dreanyc123) bookshop.org/books/invisibl…
"The Torture Letters: Reckoning With Police Violence" by @Laurence_Ralph is a brilliant and thoroughly original take on police violence. bookshop.org/books/the-tort…
I've learned a great deal from the brilliant scholarship of @sjjphd, Moya Bailey, and Brook Foucault-Welles in "#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice" bookshop.org/books/hashtaga…
