A review by moonyreadsbystarlight
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal

emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

Mumia Abu-Jamal pointedly weaves together the past with what is his present in this this is a compellation of essays from 1998 to 2017 on police brutality. There is so much important insight throughout many of these. More than that, there is so much. He recalls so many names -- and this isn't close to a complete list by any means.   While I would love a detailed history of the instances he discusses, I think that his style of essay and choice to put out from such a broad span of time (nearly two decades) works very well. While this is obviously emotional to read, the way that he writes and the length of the essays made this relatively quick to get through.
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