
They Can't Kill Us All
Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement
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Narrated by:
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Ron Butler
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By:
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Wesley Lowery
One of the Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2016 - Publishers Weekly
One of the Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2016 - Elle
11 Fall Books We Can't Wait to Read - Seattle Times
A Best Book of Fall 2016 - Boston Globe
One of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's 20 Books to Watch, fall 2016
A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.
Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri, to Cleveland, Ohio; Charleston, South Carolina; and Baltimore, Maryland; and then back to Ferguson to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, corners of America today.
In an effort to grasp the magnitude of the response to Michael Brown's death and understand the scale of the problem police violence represents, Lowery speaks to Brown's family and the families of other victims as well as local activists. By posing the question "what does the loss of any one life mean to the rest of the nation?", Lowery examines the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with failing schools, crumbling infrastructure, and too few jobs.
Studded with moments of joy and tragedy, They Can't Kill Us All offers a historically informed look at the standoff between the police and those they are sworn to protect, showing that civil unrest is just one tool of resistance in the broader struggle for justice. As Lowery brings vividly to life, the protests against police killings are also about the black community's long history of being on the receiving end of perceived and actual acts of injustice and discrimination. They Can't Kill Us All grapples with a persistent if also largely unexamined aspect of the otherwise transformative presidency of Barack Obama: the failure to deliver tangible security and opportunity to those Americans most in need of both.
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Eye opening book I want to send to my Uncle(s)
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casting issue?
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Informative, great narrator
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Necessary and Inspiring
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Revealing!
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Feels like you were right there during the events
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Means
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Quite Good
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But the story lacked cohesiveness. It felt more like individual stories strong together.
Great content, story line is so so
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I also view the title as misleading because I DO think can kill us all... And like others have said, the emotional music detracts from the message
Overall decent but lacking somethibg
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