Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom ancestry and offers lessons that activists

and offers lessons that activists have learned from Ferguson to South Africa

Lu was born to be cocaptain of the Defenders

National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning

a rose nailed to some dark longing and bled

and Wounds of Palestine by Francesca Albanese

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom ancestry and offers lessons that activistsSigned edition of Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day. Millions of people continue to protest police violence because these "solutions" do not match the problem: the police cannot be reformed. In Becoming Abolitionists, Purnell