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- Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor“I hope readers consider whether we need to reassess Black women’s relationship to violence.”
- Tanvi Misra“Police have used the entire vehicle code as an excuse to use their discretion to pull people over who might appear suspicious to them for whatever reason.”
- William C. Anderson“Once you come to understand the institution’s ties to white supremacy, it becomes clear the system is toxic and cannot be fixed.”
- Dr. Kweli Nzito“Racist narratives become so thoroughly pervasive as to throw victims of racism themselves into states of confusion.”
- Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer“The elders” told Jenifer Wilson that there would soon be an assault on Harlem “to take the community from us, all the spaces.” So Wilson founded the Sisters’ Uptown Bookstore