Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

21 reviews

thesaltiestlibrarian's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Stalking, and Murder

anniefwrites's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

Another informative, moving graphic memoir of John Lewis’s life. I especially appreciated how he and the other authors lifted up the stories of women in the movement in all three books because they are so often ignored. The imagery is not for the faint of heart, but it is really the next best thing for a generation who didn’t grow up watching the movement on television or participating in it directly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cursing

nrogers_1030's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

sweetmusic22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

I wish this book wasn't too long

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, and Police brutality

Moderate: Slavery

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Such and important read. I think people forget just how recent this was. I learned a lot like I didn’t fully know what Bloody Sunday was. Just all these people were/are so strong and amazing. This book made me so mad and sad, but also hopeful for the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, and Grief

kayleyhyde's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Police brutality

Moderate: Death and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault

ehmannky's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is by far the best of this trilogy of graphic memoirs, and this is high praise given that I think that the other two are some of the best that the genre has produced. There is so much death and violence and pain in this one, so much suffering, and yet Lewis, his co-author, and illustrator do not frame it as a story of despair, but as a story of hope and triumph over the forces of white supremacy and white liberal complacency that would create such a monstrous system that was and is systemic white supremacy in America. It's an incredibly moving work, and I had to stop multiple times to just let the words and the art sink in. It's so much to take in, and I cannot recommend it enough. 

I read the first of this series before much of the social unrest of 2020 occurred, and it struck me now as I finish it just how unfair it is that Lewis never got to rest. That he spent his final years battling the same white supremacists and their ilk that physically beat him as a young man. And how unfair it is that we're creating a world where Black people and their allies continually have to stand up to this. It makes me want to go out and push for a better world, even as it becomes clear that it won't happen within my lifetime. Which is what I hope John Lewis would have wanted. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, and Murder

Minor: Sexism

kerrireads's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Police brutality

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.0

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the history in these books is irreplaceable. But I had a hard time getting enough context from this format. It wasn’t a huge problem, but enough to knock this book down a star. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, and Murder

kayewa's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, and Police brutality

Minor: Misogyny