**Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose**
'A devastating front-line account of the police killings and the
young activism that sparked one of the most significant racial justice
movements since the 1960s: Black Lives Matter ... Lowery more or less
pulls the sheet off America ... essential reading' Junot Diaz, The New
York Times, Books of 2016'Electric ...
so well reported, so
plainly told and so evidently the work of a man who has not grown a
callus on his heart' Dwight Garner, The New York Times, 'A Top Ten Book
of 2016''I'd recommend everyone to read this book ... it's not just
statistics, it's not just the information, but it's the connective
tissue that shows the human story behind it. I really enjoyed it' Trevor
Noah, host of Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show 'A deeply reported book
on the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement, offering unparalleled
insight into the reality of police violence in America, and an intimate,
moving portrait of those working to end it In over a year of
on-the-ground reportage, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled
across the US to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if
otherwise neglected, corners of America today.
In an effort to
grasp the scale of the response to Michael Brown's death and understand
the magnitude of the problem police violence represents, Lowery
conducted hundreds of interviews with the families of victims of police
brutality, as well as with local activists working to stop it. Lowery
investigates the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased
policing in segregated neighborhoods with constant discrimination,
failing schools, crumbling infrastructure and too few jobs. Offering a
historically informed look at the standoff between the police and those
they are sworn to protect, They Can't Kill Us All demonstrates that
civil unrest is just one tool of resistance in the broader struggle for
justice.
And at the end of President Obama's tenure, it grapples
with a worrying and largely unexamined aspect of his legacy: the
failure to deliver tangible security and opportunity to the marginalised
Americans most in need of it.
They Can't Kill Us All : The Story of Black Lives Matter - Wesley Lowery
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