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

4.0

4.5 stars. The addendum at the end pulled the entire book together. Obviously since it is a book compiled of letters written over the years, it gets redundant towards the last third of the book. However, I really did enjoy looking up several historical moments and cultural references that I had missed back in high school when politics/social justice wasn't on my radar yet. Would highly recommend, but only after you read Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me. (Maybe even read this before BTWAM for historical context, since Coates' uses more convoluted language and Abu-Jamal is much more accessible language-wise).