Overview

This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice -- and ideas for how each of us can contribute Many of us are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our privacy, and our hard-won civil rights. If you're Black in the US, this is not new. As Colorlines editors Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin show, Black Americans subvert and resist life-threatening forces as a matter of course. In these pages, leading organizers, artists, journalists, comedians, and filmmakers offer wisdom on how they fight White supremacy. It's a must-read for anyone new to resistance work, and for the next generation of leaders building a better future. Featuring contributions from: Ta-Nehisi CoatesTarana BurkeHarry BelafonteAdrienne Maree brownAlicia GarzaPatrisse Khan-CullorsReverend Dr. Valerie BridgemanKiese LaymonJamilah Lemieux Robin DG KelleyDamon YoungMichael ArceneauxHanif AbdurraqibDr. Yaba BlayDiamond StingilyAmanda Seales Imani PerryDenene MillnerKierna MayoJohn JenningsDr. Joy Harden BradfordTongo Eisen-Martin

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Solomon and Rankin draw on more than 60 black contributors to share their coping mechanisms, skills, and strategies...from the raucous to the religious...Not simply a onetime read...[but] a reference for daily consideration, discussion, inspiration, or instruction. -- Library Journal A brilliant, beautiful, and politically urgent text...This book offers us an impressive range of academic, political, and personal takes on White supremacy. More importantly, the book gives us permission to dream, think, organize, and struggle for a world outside of it. -- Marc Lamont Hill, author of Nobody A timely and important work to support, educate, nourish, and sustain us all in resisting the lethal effects of white supremacy. -- Kimberle Crenshaw, professor of law, Columbia Law School and University of California, Los Angeles Solomon and Rankin...provide readers with a blueprint for protest. The themed chapters knit together interviews, comics and art, essays, brief profiles of organizers, poems, and quotations...This dynamic collection will inspire, energize, and entertain readers. -- Publishers Weekly How We Fight White Supremacy is the primer America needs right now! White supremacy is hardly new, but each generation needs to be reminded of the strategies of resistance and resilience that have made African American struggle so powerful and effective. -- Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times bestselling author

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Akiba Solomon is senior editorial director of Colorlines and an NABJ Award-winning journalist and editor whose writing on culture, race, gender, and reproductive health has appeared in Essence, Dissent, Glamour, Vibe, and Ebony, among other outlets. She is the co-editor of Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts. She has spoken about women's and social justice issues at institutions including the Schomburg Center, Stanford, Yale, and Harvard. She is a graduate of Howard University. Kenrya Rankin is an award-winning author, journalist, editorial consultant, and the editorial director at Colorlines. Her work has appeared in dozens of national publications, including the New York Times, Glamour, Reader's Digest, and Fast Company. She is the author of four books, including Bet on Black: African-American Women Celebrate Fatherhood in the Age of Barack Obama. She is a graduate of Howard University and New York University. Kenrya Rankin is an award-winning author, journalist, editorial consultant and the editorial director at Colorlines. Her work has appeared in dozens of national publications, including the New York Times, Glamour, Reader's Digest, and Fast Company. She is the author of four books, including Bet on Black: African-American Women Celebrate Fatherhood in the Age of Barack Obama. A graduate of Howard University and New York University, she is based in Washington, D.C. Janina Edwards, an Earphone Award-winning narrator, is a graduate of the acting program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Brad Raymond is a narrator of audiobooks known for his Earphones Award-winning reading of Respect, the biography of Aretha Franklin by David Ritz, among others. Danielle Deadwyler is a voice talent and audiobook narrator. Coming soon...

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