Publisher Description
"The audio version adds to the authenticity even more as she narrates her own words, bringing the listener into her world." -- School Library Journal, starred review This program includes a foreword read by Angela Davis Patrisse Cullors' and asha bandele's instant New York Times bestseller, When They Call You a Terrorist is now adapted for the YA audience! 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 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. A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books
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"When They Call You a Terrorist deals with the incarceration and disenfranchisement of black men like her father, but it also explores facets of Cullors’ personal identity ? black womanhood and sexuality, as well as spirituality.”
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TIME
About the Authors
Asha Bandele has authored two collections of poetry, an award-winning novel, and two memoirs, including the award-winning and best-selling The Prisoner’s Wife. A senior director at the Drug Policy Alliance, Asha has served as an editor at Essence Magazine, and has been honored with numerous awards for her journalism and activism. Asha lives in Brooklyn, where she is raising her daughter Nisa and continuing to advocate for the nation’s most harmed communities.
Patrisse Khan-Cullors is a artist, organizer, and freedom fighter from Los Angeles, California. Cofounder of Black Lives Matter and founder of Dignity and Power Now, she is also a performance artist, Fulbright scholar, a popular public speaker, and an NAACP History Maker. She has received many awards for activism and movement building, including being named one of the 100 World’s Greatest Leaders by Fortune magazine and as a Civil Rights Leader for the 21st Century by the Los Angeles Times.
Patrisse Cullors is an author, artist, organizer, and freedom fighter from Los Angeles. She is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter and also a performance artist, Fulbright scholar, popular public speaker, and an NAACP “History Maker.”
About Angela Davis
Angela Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. Her books include Freedom Is a Constant Struggle; Are Prisons Obsolete?; Women, Race, and Class; and an autobiography. She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners and is distinguished professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.