The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System
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"The Black Agenda mobilizes top Black experts from across the country to share transformative perspectives on how to deploy anti-racist ideas and policies into everything from climate policy to criminal justice to healthcare. This book will challenge what you think is possible by igniting long overdue conversations around how to enact lasting and meaningful change rooted in racial justice." --Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped From the Beginning
From ongoing reports of police brutality to the disproportionate impact COVID-19 has had on Black Americans, 2020 brought a renewed awareness to the deep-rootedness of racism and white supremacy in every facet of American life.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 02/01/2022
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781250276872
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2021 pg. 17
Publishers Weekly 11/29/2021
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2021
Library Journal 02/01/2022 pg. 83
About the Author
ANNA GIFTY OPOKU-AGYEMAN is a researcher, writer, science communicator and activist whose work has been featured in Teen Vogue, The New York Times, Slate Magazine, NPR, Fortune, Marketplace, and The Guardian. She is the co-founder of The Sadie Collective, the only nonprofit organization addressing the lack of Black women in economics and related fields. In 2020, she became the youngest recipient for the CEDAW Women's Rights Award by the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women.