In this episode I talk about the Black awakening in America during Obama's presidency, the illusion of justice that was revealed through this time and how we move from #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation and ultimately the liberation of humanity from capitalist and imperialist powers. 

The primary source of this episode is #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Winner of the 2016 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize for an Especially Notable Book

“Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's searching examination of the social, political and economic dimensions of the prevailing racial order offers important context for understanding the necessity of the emerging movement for black liberation.”
—Michelle Alexander

Book Description via Haymarket Books: "The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America. The Black Lives Matter movement has awakened a new generation of activists.

In this stirring and insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation."

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https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/778-from-blacklivesmatter-to-black-liberation


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