It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America Audiobook (Free)

Young Black Us citizens have been trying to understand the promise from the American Desire for centuries and coping with the reality of its limitations for just as long. Now, a new era is pursuing success, happiness, and independence — on their own terms.

In IT HAD BEEN All a Wish, Reniqua Allen tells the stories of Dark millennials searching for a better future in spite of racist policies that have closed off traditional versions of success. Many viewed their parents and grandparents play with the about It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America rules, and then kitchen sink deeper and deeper into personal debt. They observed their elders fight to flee cycles of oppression for more guaranteeing prospects, largely to no avail. Today, within this post-Obama period, they face a critical turning point.

Interweaving her own encounter with those of young Black Americans in cities and towns from New York to Los Angeles and Bluefield, West Virginia to Chicago, Allen shares amazing stories of wish and ingenuity. Rather than accepting downward flexibility, Dark millennials are flipping the script and rejecting Light America’s specifications. Whether this means moving away from cities and proceeding South, hustling in the entertainment sector, challenging concepts about gender and sexuality, or building activist networks, they are determined to forge their own path.

Compassionate and deeply reported, IT HAD BEEN All a Dream is definitely a celebration of the generation’s doggedness against all chances, as they battle for a country in which their dreams may become a reality.