A review by lornadoone14
From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

Important read for those who want a history from Ferguson to the post- Obama years and the Black Lives Matter movement. I thought the parts explaining Ferguson were super enlightening since I was 19 and not dialed into the events as they were unfolding. It is a good entry-point to learning about the BLM movement but basic to those who are already really familiar with Obama/ Post Obama era politics. This book was published in 2016 and it was interesting to listen in 2024 after living through Trump, the Pandemic, living in Minneapolis through George Floyd, and at the end of Biden's first term and realizing that the fallout of the last 8 years has charted a different course for the movement. Infuriatingly, police shootings have still been increasing since 2016: https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/