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One that you might like is We Still Here,

Pandemic Policing, Protest, and Possibility

by Mark Lamont Hill, edited by Frank Barrett,

Barrett, with a forward by Kiega Yamada Taylor.

The uprising of 2020 marked a new phase in the unfolding movement for Black Lives.

The brutal killings of Amad Arbury, George Floyd. unfolding movement

of Amad Arbury, George Floyd, and Brianna Taylor,

and countless other injustices large and small

were the match that lit the spark of the largest

protest movement in US history, a historic

uprising against racism and the politics of disposability that the COVID-19

pandemic lays bare. In this urgent and incisive collection of new

interviews bookended by two new essays, Mark Lamont Hill critically

examines the pre-existing conditions that have led to this moment of crisis and

upheaval guiding us through both the perils and possibilities and helping us

imagine an abolitionist future.

As Eddie S. Claude Jr. said, quote,

Mark Lamont Hill doesn't shy away from the difficult questions,

and he is willing to tell the hard truth.

In this powerful book, his insight and commitment

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