Ebook: Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
Author: Abu-Jamal Mumia
- Tags: African Americans--Civil rights, African Americans--Social conditions, African Americans--Social conditions--1975-, African Americans--Violence against, Noirs américains--Conditions sociales--1975-, Noirs américains--Droits, Police brutality, Police brutality--United States, Race relations, Racism, Racism--United States, African Americans -- Civil rights, African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-, African Americans -- Violence against, Police brutality -- United States, Racism -- United States, United St
- Series: Open Media book
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: City Lights Publishers
- City: États-Unis;United States
- Language: English
- epub
"[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...