They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement in Around the Year in 52 Books

Jan 29, 2017 Tracey S rated it really liked it

I was sent this book from the publisher –Penguin Random House– via Netgalley in return for an honest review. It’s release date was 26th of January 2017.

Wesley Lowery is a national reporter for the Washington Post, and he found himself the lead reporter in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9th 2014 covering the killing of unarmed black youth Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson and therefore unknowingly witnessing the birth of the #BlackLivesMatter social movement. Lowery sets out this ...more

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Mar 18, 2022 Beth Given rated it really liked it

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"In the months and years after the unrest in Ferguson, when the police elsewhere have killed someone, city officials have often been quick to declare "this is no Ferguson" or "we are not Ferguson." But Ferguson is not some faraway story. In a country where police kill more than a thousand people each year, Ferguson is in all places a local story. We live in a country where police violence is a persuasive fixture of daily life, not a problem plaguing some distant locale."

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Feb 24, 2018 Jana rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audiobooks, x2018-reading-challenge

A great book summarizing and analyzing the violence and activism leading up to and following the shooting in Ferguson. I believe this book was added to my to-read list after watching an interview with the author on The Daily Show. I'm glad I finally got around to listening to this book. ...more

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