Book Review: Quiet Sounds Better if You Have Nothing Deep to Say: Black Mainstream Journalism Only Circles the George Floyd/Breonna Taylor Square

Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, Keith Harrison. Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America. New York and Boston: Grand Central Publishing, 352 pp., $30. Edited by Jelani Cobb and David Remnick. The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker. New York: Ecco, 819 pp., $35….

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On Ending the Police Occupation and Terrorism Against Black People

A statement by Community Movement Builders The recent murders of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd Jr., David McAtee, Tony McDade, Nina Pop, Breonna Taylor, Priscilla Slater, Sean Monterrosa, and others are the most recent proof that the police (both state-employed officers and white terrorists who deputize themselves to “police” Black people) and the criminal justice system…

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