When they call you a terrorist : a black lives matter memoir /

Khan-Cullors, Patrisse, 1984-

When they call you a terrorist : a black lives matter memoir / Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele. - First edition. - xiv, 257 pages ; 20 cm

Community, interrupted -- Twelve -- Bloodlines -- Magnitude and bond -- Witness -- Out in world -- All the bones we could find -- Zero dark thirty: the remix -- No ordinary love -- Dignity and power. now -- Black lives matter -- Raid -- A call, a response -- #sayhername -- Black futures -- When they call you a terrorist.

"The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the movement was born. 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, Patrisse Cullors and asha bandele seek to change the culture that declares innocent black life expendable"--

9781250171085 (hardcover)

2017036191


Khan-Cullors, Patrisse, 1984-


African American women political activists--Biography.
African American women--Biography.
Black lives matter movement.


United States--Race relations.


Autobiographies.

E185.97.K43 / A3 2018

305.48/896073