The Purpose of Power

How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

Author: Alicia Garza
ISBN: 9780525509684

An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country's leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter "In a year when a long overdue reckoning with racism is once again in the spotlight, Garza's call to action . . . is urgent and critically necessary."--Time NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Time - Marie Claire - Kirkus Reviews In 2013, Alicia Garza wrote what she called "a love letter to Black people" on Facebook, in the aftermath of the acquittal of the man who murdered seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin. Garza wrote: Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter. With the speed and networking capacities of social media, #BlackLivesMatter became the hashtag heard 'round the world. But Garza knew even then that hashtags don't start movements--people do. Long before #BlackLivesMatter became a rallying cry for this generation, Garza had spent the better part of two decades learning and unlear

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publish Date: 2020

Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American Studies, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations

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