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herasrevenge88's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This book could have easily been all fact and statistics but the authors instead weaved that information with heart wrenching or uplifting personal accounts. This served to best illustrate how these facts/stats impacted not just America or the black community, but individual lives and families. I think this approach made it easier to understand than just giving the reader facts and stats and helped to make the reader (hopefully) more empathetic to black people. This book had a lot of information that I didn’t even know happened despite having lived through it and participated in some of it. It made me realize how very sheltered I was even despite trying to learn. This book made me very reflective on what I have done personally to help and what I can do and we as a country need to do going forward. I feel like many people have become complacent since Trump lost the re-election but the fight for equality is far from over. I hope more people realize that and as a country we can take steps toward equality. I personally have been and will continue to recommend this book to people.
transportedlfl's review
5.0
I so greatly appreciated this book, written by multiple journalists. It covers the protests following George Floyd's murder, policing and prisons, the wealth gap, voting and legislation, racism in the COVID-19 pandemic and health disparities, and more.
One chapter in particular, Church in the Age of the BLM Movement by Nick Charles, was entirely new information for me. But I learned something from every single chapter. It was simultaneously so current and relevant and so well grounded in history.
It is so important that these stories are being documented now, and that they are able to take a longer form than fits into newspaper articles. This is precisely the genre of nonfiction that I prefer to read, and it was particularly well done. I expect to return to this book and review it again multiple times (and even purchased the audiobook to do so).
Thank you to Grand Central for the book. These opinions are my own.
4.5 stars rounded up
One chapter in particular, Church in the Age of the BLM Movement by Nick Charles, was entirely new information for me. But I learned something from every single chapter. It was simultaneously so current and relevant and so well grounded in history.
It is so important that these stories are being documented now, and that they are able to take a longer form than fits into newspaper articles. This is precisely the genre of nonfiction that I prefer to read, and it was particularly well done. I expect to return to this book and review it again multiple times (and even purchased the audiobook to do so).
Thank you to Grand Central for the book. These opinions are my own.
4.5 stars rounded up
kayreadsfast's review
5.0
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is an incredibly important read for every American, and honestly it’s even more important for white Americans to read. I pride myself on not only being “not racist,” but instead vehemently “anti racist,” but this book opened my eyes and my heart even further. Out of all my NetGalley ARCs, this one stands at the top of my list for most impactful. Please, read this book. ASAP. I received this book in exchange for an honest review, all opinions are my own.
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