They Can&39t Kill Us All The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives [Paperback]

LA Timeswinner for The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose
ANew York Timesbestseller
ANew York TimesEditors' Choice

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Essential reading. --Junot Diaz

Electric...so well reported, so plainly told and so evidently the work of a man who has not grown a callus on his heart. --Dwight Garner,New York Times, A Top Ten Book of 2016

I'd recommend everyone to read this book because it's not just statistics, it's not just the information, but it's the connective tissue that shows the human story behind it. -- Trevor Noah, The Daily Show

A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it

Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground,Washington Postwriter Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri, to Cleveland, Ohio; Charleston, South Carolina; and Baltimore, Maryland; and then back to Ferguson to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, corners of America today.

In an effort to grasp the magnitude of the repose to Michael Brown's death and understand the scale of the problem police violence represents, Lowery speaks to Brown's family and the families of other victims other victims' families as well as local activists. By posing the question, What does the loss of any one life mean to the rest of the nation? Lowery examines the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with failing schools, crumbling infrastructlcJ