{"product_id":"reimagining-the-revolution-four-stories-of-abolition-autonomy-and-forging-new-paths-in-the-modern-civil-rights-movement","title":"Reimagining the Revolution: Four Stories of Abolition, Autonomy, and Forging New Paths in the Modern Civil Rights Movement","description":"\u003cb\u003eThese are the architects of the modern civil rights movement: 4 profiles of revolutionary groups making change beyond protest \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA radically different approach to sustaining social justice movements--4 strategies for abolition and liberation from the new architects of the modern civil rights movement \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMany of us think, I don't support the police. But what should take their place?\u003c\/i\u003e Or: \u003ci\u003ePrisons don't keep us safe. But what new systems could?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA lot of books about racial justice ask us how we got here, but \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReimagining the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is different: award-winning journalist and activist Paula Lehman-Ewing presents an inside-access look at the activists redefining where we \u003ci\u003ego\u003c\/i\u003e from here. Readers will hear from: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIvan Kilgore\u003c\/b\u003e, an incarcerated activist who founded the 501c3 nonprofit United Black Family Scholarship Foundation from behind prison walls\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCritical Resistance\u003c\/b\u003e, one of the oldest grassroots organizations in the nation working to dismantle the prison-industrial complex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe co-founders of \u003cb\u003eGreenwood\u003c\/b\u003e, a Black-owned financial technology institution designed specifically for Black and Latino people and businesses: \u003cb\u003eMichael Render, \u003c\/b\u003eaka\u003cb\u003e Killer Mike, Amb. Andrew Young and Ryan Glover\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncarcerated activist \u003cb\u003eHeshima Denham\u003c\/b\u003e on his grassroots efforts to build a society for Black and Brown people independent of the state \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Movement for Black Lives, the Alliance for Safety and Justice, BYP 100\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003e8toAbolition\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIncarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists\u003c\/b\u003e using art to heal from trauma, connect with other incarcerated people, and amplify abolitionist change\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLehman-Ewing frames each profile within two fundamental truths: The current system--built and sustained by oppression, extraction, and inequity by design--cannot be reformed. And, knowing this, we need abolition; we need creative solutions designed by the people most impacted by the systems they fight to change.\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e Reimagining the Revolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a call to action for each of us: if we can access the tools we have, we can dream bigger, think outside the box, and follow the paths laid out by change-making activists toward nothing short of revolution.","brand":"Ilyasah Shabazz, Paula Lehman-Ewing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46337652883692,"sku":"9798889840794","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9798889840794.jpg?v=1743711682","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/reimagining-the-revolution-four-stories-of-abolition-autonomy-and-forging-new-paths-in-the-modern-civil-rights-movement","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}