Powerful collection of. voices and events that might engender depression. but for the author and other activist. voices set out in pages: intractable police racism is even more worrying when fascist climate further inculcated: this is strong stuff, riveting and moving.

I read this to learn more about Ferguson and the Black Lives Matter movement, and in that sense the book fulfilled its purpose, though I’m not sure I gleaned anything I couldn’t have just by paying more attention to contemporary news coverage. Still, it’s interesting to get a young black reporter’s perspective on the recent spate of police shootings – “few things move as slowly, under such a unique cloak of darkness, as an investigation into an officer-involved shooting.”