They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement Audiobook (Free)

LA Times champion for The Christopher Isherwood Reward for Autobiographical Prose

A FRESH York Occasions bestseller

A FRESH York Instances Editors’ Choice A Featured Title in THE BRAND NEW York Times Book Review’s ‘Paperback Row’

A Bustle ’17 Books About Competition Every White Person Should Read’

‘Important reading.’–Junot Diaz

‘Electric…so well reported, therefore plainly told and so evidently the task of a guy who has not cultivated a callus about his heart.’–Dwight Garner, New York Times, ‘A TOP Book of 2016’

‘I’d about THEY CAN NOT Kill PEOPLE: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement recommend everyone to learn this book because it’s not just statistics, it isn’t just the info, but it’s the connective tissue that shows the human tale behind it.’ — Trevor Noah, The Daily Present

A deeply reported book that brings alive the search for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Grain, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight in to the actuality of police assault in America and a romantic, moving portrait of those attempting to end it

Conducting a huge selection of interviews during over one year reporting on the floor, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery journeyed from Ferguson, Missouri, to Cleveland, Ohio; Charleston, South Carolina; and Baltimore, Maryland; and back again to Ferguson to discover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, sides of America today.

In an effort to grasp the magnitude from the repose to Michael Brown’s death and understand the scale of the problem police violence represents, Lowery speaks to Brown’s family and the groups of other victims other victims’ families aswell as local activists. By posing the question, ‘What does the increased loss of any one lifestyle mean to all of those other country?’ Lowery examines the cumulative aftereffect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with faltering schools, crumbling infrastructure and too few jobs.

Studded with moments of joy, and tragedy, They Can’t Kill Us All provides a historically educated go through the standoff between the police and the ones these are sworn to safeguard, displaying that civil unrest is merely one particular tool of resistance in the broader struggle for justice. As Lowery brings vividly to life, the protests against police killings may also be about the dark community’s long background on the getting end of recognized and actual serves of injustice and discrimination. They Can’t Kill Us All grapples having a continual if also mainly unexamined facet of the in any other case transformative presidency of Barack Obama: the failing to provide tangible security and opportunity to those People in america most in need of both.