Book Preview: How We Can Win: Race, History, and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged

Driving the Green Book

Macmillan

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Hear an excerpt from the new book, How We Can Win: Race, History, and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged. In it, author and activist Kimberly Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism, revealing how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice. It's inspired by her viral video during the George Floyd protests and her analysis of the enduring economic disparities Black Americans face. With an introduction from Green Book host Alvin Hall, you can hear the first chapter of the audio book now. Get your copy here or wherever books or audiobooks are sold.

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0:00.0	Hello, listeners!
0:01.8	This is Driving the Green Book Host, Alvin Hall, and today I'm honored to introduce you
0:07.4	to another member of the McMillan family, activist and author, Kimberly Jones.
0:13.6	When Kimberly Jones spontaneously spoke amid protests spurred by the murder of George
0:19.1	Floyd, she riveted millions of viewers with her stunningly succinct analysis of the enduring
0:26.0	economic disparities black Americans face.
0:29.5	Her brilliant analogy using the board game Monopoly is expanded upon in her powerful
0:35.8	new book, How We Can Win, Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged.
0:43.6	Much like the stories we told in Driving the Green Book, her words will empower and move
0:49.4	you.
0:50.4	Here's a free audio excerpt from How We Can Win That Proves Just That.
0:56.0	If you like what you hear, you can find how we can win wherever you get your books and
1:01.4	audio books today.
1:06.0	In 2019, I put out a call to action to my community and made a Facebook event for a neighborhood
1:11.8	cleanup where I was living in Bankhead, a community on the west side of Atlanta.
1:17.1	Oddly enough, the area was named after actress Talula Bankhead's grandfather, John H.
1:23.0	Bankhead, an Alabama Confederate War hero and U.S. Senator.
1:28.0	But if the name rings familiar to you, it's probably because of the song Bankhead Bounce
1:33.2	by Diamond and D. Rock, and you may even know the dance of the same name.
1:38.2	I didn't grow up there like TI.
1:40.5	I was born up in Bankhead, y'all remember me.
1:43.9	But for many years, I called it home.
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