Reimagining the Revolution

<b>These are the architects of the modern civil rights movement: 4 profiles of revolutionary groups making change beyond protest<br><br>A radically different approach to sustaining social justice movements—4 strategies for abolition and liberation from the new architects of the modern civil rights movement</b><br><br><i>Many of us think, I don’t support the police. But what should take their place?</i> Or: <i>Prisons don’t keep us safe. But what new systems could?</i><br><br>A lot of books about racial justice ask us how we got here, but <b><i>Reimagining the Revolution</i></b> is different: award-winning journalist and activist Paula Lehman-Ewing presents an inside-access look at the activists redefining where we <i>go</i> from here. Readers will hear from:<br><br><ul><li><b>Ivan Kilgore</b>, an incarcerated activist who founded the 501c3 nonprofit United Black Family Scholarship Foundation from behind prison walls</li><li><b>Critical Resistance</b>, one of the oldest grassroots organizations in the nation working to dismantle the prison-industrial complex</li><li>The co-founders of <b>Greenwood</b>, a Black-owned financial technology institution designed specifically for Black and Latino people and businesses: <b>Michael Render, </b>aka<b> Killer Mike, Amb. Andrew Young and Ryan Glover</b></li><li>Incarcerated activist <b>Heshima Denham</b> on his grassroots efforts to build a society for Black and Brown people independent of the state </li><li><b>The Movement for Black Lives, the Alliance for Safety and Justice, BYP 100</b>, and <b>8toAbolition</b></li><li><b>Incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists</b> using art to heal from trauma, connect with other incarcerated people, and amplify abolitionist change</li></ul><br>Lehman-Ewing frames each profile within two fundamental truths: The current system—built and sustained by oppression, extraction, and inequity by design—cannot be reformed. And, knowing this, we need abolition; we need creative solutions designed by the people most impacted by the systems they fight to change.<i><b> Reimagining the Revolution</b></i> is a call to action for each of us: if we can access the tools we have, we can dream bigger, think outside the box, and follow the paths laid out by change-making activists toward nothing short of revolution.