Look for Me in the Whirlwind

From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions

déqui kioni-sadiki

In 1969, 21 members of the militant New York branch of the Black Panther Party were rounded up and indicted on multiple charges of violent acts and conspiracies. The membership of the NY 21, which...

The End of Policing

Alex S. Vitale

his book attempts to spark public discussion by revealing the tainted origins of modern policing as a tool of social control. It shows how the expansion of police authority is inconsistent with...

They Can't Kill Us All

Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement

Wesley Lowery

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...

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

Elizabeth Hinton

In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the “land of the free” become...

Captive Nation

Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

Dan Berger

In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration....