Description

One of the nations most prominent civil rights leaders (Washington Post), a New York Times bestselling author, community organizer, investigative journalist, Ivy League professor, and former head of the NAACP, Ben Jealous draws from a life lived on Americas racial fault line to deliver a series of gripping and lively parables that call on each of us to reconcile, heal, and work fearlessly to make America one nation.

Never Forget Our People Were Always Free illuminates for each of us how the path to healing Americas broken heart starts with each of us having the courage to heal our son of parents who had to leave Maryland because their cross-racial marriage was illegal, Ben Jealous lively, courageous and empathetic storytelling calls on every American to look past deeply-cut divisions and recognize we are all in the same boat now. Along the way Jealous grapples with hidden American mysteries, including:

Why do white men die from suicide more often than black men die from murder?

How did racial profiling kill an American president?

What happens when a Ku Klux Klansman wrestles with what Jesus actually said?

How did Dave Chappelle know the DC Snipers were Black?

Why shouldnt the civil rights movement give up on rednecks?

When is what we have collectively forgotten about race more important than what we actually know?

What do the most indecipherable things our elders say tell us about ourselves?

Told as a series of parables, Never Forget Our People Were Always Free features intimate glimpses of political, and faith leaders as different as Jack Kemp, Stacey Abrams, and the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and heroes as unlikely as a retired constable, a female pirate from Madagascar, a long lost Irishman, a death row inmate, and a man with a confederate flag over his heart.

More than anything, Never Forget Our People Were Always Free offers readers hope Americas oldest wounds can heal and her oldest divisions be overcome.

Author: Benjamin Todd Jealous
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Amistad Press
Published: 01/10/2023
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.24w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780062961747
Language: English