Have Black lives ever mattered? / Mumia Abu-Jamal.

"'This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States. This is the book we need right now to find our bearings in the chaos'--Roxanne Dunbar-...

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Uniform Title:Open Media book.
Main Author: Abu-Jamal, Mumia (Author)
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2017]
Series:Open Media book.
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Physical Description:xiii, 206 pages ; 19 cm.
Format: Book

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