How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
by Alicia Garza
Recommended by Ibram X. Kendi
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An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country?s leading organizers and a cocreator of Black Lives Matter In 2013, Alicia Garza wrote what she called ?a love letter to Black people? on Facebook, in the aftermath of the acquittal of the man who murdered seventeenyearold Trayv...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Politics, and Social Sciences.
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Ibram X. Kendi
“My last piece @TheAtlantic was a list of 10 notable political books by Black women published in 2020 when the American people made history by electing Vice President Kamala Harris. Check the stack! These are the books I recommend for #BlackHistoryMonth.”
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