Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

Derecka Purnell

415 pages first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Derecka Purnell, author of the viral The Atlantic article “How I Became a Police Abolitionist,” invites readers to imagine a world without police through her journey as an activist.As more and more people in the United States and beyond grapple wi...

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