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Have Black lives ever mattered? / Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Title: Have Black lives ever mattered? / Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Author: Abu-Jamal, Mumia
Publication: San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2017]

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xiii, 206 pages; 19 cm.

Summary

"'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. Davis; In 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"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Open media series

Uniform Title

Open Media book

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Have black lives ever mattered? -- Hate crimes / June 14, 1998 -- Where is the outrage? / 1999 -- Cincinnati fires / April 17, 2001 -- Aiding and abetting "Bombingham" : the FBI / May 28, 2001 -- The other central park rapes / 2002 -- When a child is killed / February 22, 2003 -- Oscar Grant and you / January 17, 2009 -- The arrest of Harvard scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates / July 30, 2009 -- The death penalty derives from the Lynch Law / March 10, 2010 -- Troy Davis: Movement lessons / September 9, 2011 -- The Trayvon Martin case / April 12, 2012 -- For Rodney King the struggle is finally over / June 17, 2012 -- The Dorner dilemma / February 18, 2013 -- Trayvon is one, there are many / July 21, 2013 -- The last days of President Obama / February 13, 2014 -- A cop shot 18-year-old Michael Brown eight times / August 11, 2014 -- The meaning of Ferguson / August 31, 2014 -- The Troy Davis tragedy / October 13, 2014 -- Eric Garner: "I Can't Breathe" / December 4, 2014 -- Ferguson, USA / March 5, 2015 -- The heritage of the confederate battle flag / July 7, 2015 -- Tamir Rice of Cleveland / October 15, 2015 -- Because she is a black child / December 28, 2015.

ISBN

9780872867383
0872867382

LCCN

^^2017013442

OCLC

959037393

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library