When they call you a terrorist : a story of Black Lives Matter and the power to change the world
This is the story of how the movement that started with a hashtag--#BlackLivesMatter--spread across the nation and then across the world and the journey that led one of its co-founders, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, to this moment. Patrisse Khan-Cullors grew up in an over-policed United States where incarceration of Black people runs rampant. Surrounded by police brutality, she gathered the tools and lessons that would lead her on to found one of the most powerful movements in the world. This is her story. Necessary and timely, 'When They Call You a Terrorist' reminds us that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love: that love is the push to search for justice for those victimized by the powerful. With journal entries, photos and notes that show the formation of an activist from a very young age, this meaningful, empowering account of survival, strength, and resilience seeks to change the culture that declares innocent Black life expendable
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- ISBN: 9781250194985
- Physical Description 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition First edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.
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| Formatted Contents Note: | Part one: All the bones we could find -- We are stardust -- Community, interrupted -- Twelve -- Bloodlines -- Magnitude and bond -- Witness -- Out in world -- All the bones we could find -- Part two: Black Lives Matter -- Zero dark thirty: the remix -- No ordinary love -- Dignity and power. Now -- Black Lives Matter -- Raid -- A call, a response -- #sayhername -- Black futures -- When they call you a terrorist. |
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When They Call You a Terrorist (Young Adult Edition) : A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World
Patrisse Khan-Cullors' and asha bandele's instant New York Times bestseller, When They Call You a Terrorist is now adapted for the YA audience with photos and journal entries! A movement that started with a hashtag--#BlackLivesMatter--on Twitter spread across the nation and then across the world. From one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement comes a poetic memoir and reflection on humanity. Necessary and timely, Patrisse Khan-Cullors' story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love. Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, a threat to America. But in truth, they are loving women whose life experiences have led them to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful. In this meaningful, empowering account of survival, strength, and resilience, Cullors and asha bandele seek to change the culture that declares innocent black life expendable.
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