Wonderful portraying of the movement #BlackLivesMatter with the individual experiences of the victims oppressed by the police due their implicit biases. Highly recommended for the people to get a clearer view on this movement/issue.

I thank Netgalley and Penguin Publication for this opportunity.

This was a distressing book to read, making me gasp in shock and horror as time after time the author wrote about the young black men gunned down by the police in America.I live in the UK and the only time I've seen armed police is at airports or outside Buckingham Palace. I can't believe that the officers who killed these black men haven't been brought to account because it's not considered a crime by the police unions! I despair that in the 21st century movements like Black Lives Matter still have to be formed because of the blatant racism that continues in this so called 'civilised world'!

I encourage anyone who is interested in social justice, civil rights and equality for all to read this.

Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Books (UK) for my digital copy in exchange for a review.

It's easy to assume that we know everything there is to know about these killings and deaths because of the many articles, stories and think pieces. But this book brings it all together in a way that is necessary. It is an enthralling account of a very unfortunate unfolding of events and adds perspective and context to the news stories. A must-read to better understand our history and better prepare for the activism ahead.

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.”