A review by herasrevenge88
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America by Keith Harriston, Patrice Gaines, Michael H. Cottman, Nick Charles, Curtis Bunn

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.