When They Call You a Terrorist

A powerful memoir of survival and resilience, exploring what it means to be Black in America and the birth of a visionary movement demanding justice.

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Politics & Current Events 2018 O.W.L. Book Awards Winner

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Raised by a single mother in an impoverished Los Angeles neighborhood, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the prejudice and persecution Black Americans endure at the hands of law enforcement. Deliberately targeted by a criminal justice system serving a white privilege agenda, Black people are subjected to unjustifiable racial profiling and police brutality. In 2013, when Trayvon Martin's killer went free, Patrisse's outrage led her to co-found Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi.

Condemned as terrorists and a threat to America, these women founded a hashtag that birthed a movement demanding accountability from authorities who continually turn a blind eye to injustices inflicted upon people of Black and Brown skin.

When They Call You a Terrorist is Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele's reflection on humanity. An empowering account of survival, strength and resilience, it is a call to action to change the culture that declares innocent Black life expendable. Championing human rights in the face of violent racism, Patrisse transformed her personal pain into political power, giving voice to a people suffering inequality and a movement fueled by her strength and love to tell the country—and the world—that Black Lives Matter.