Oh, the Things We're For!

Oh, the Things We're For!A new book by the author of A is for Activist is a rhyming, boldly illustrated vision of a better world. When you go to a marchAnd raise your sign highYou'll make people smilewho thought you were shyAnd you'll make people wonder, does that kid really know why? You DO know of courseThat's why you are thereYou're there to say STOP! What's happening's not fairThen they say,we know what you're againstEnd poverty stop war But okaythen what are you for?

” In a seminal but now obscure essay

and other professionals -- looks with disdain upon the black poor who make up the "Ghettocracy" -- single mothers on welfare

” —Shirley ChisholmWhen Shirley Chisholm announced her candidacy for the democratic presidential nomination in 1972

and deception does to a black body

despite the progress we have made

Paperback : 144 pages

honorary degrees from John J

This book introduces readers to the concepts of prejudice and racism and gives them guidance on how to deal with these concepts in daily life

Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter is a broad and powerful exploration of the history of Black Lives Matter told through photographs

" – Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

Growing up during the Depression in the segregated coal town of Slab Fork

It will find a prized place on your sofa