A heart-wrenchingly beautiful book. We’re told the lived experiences so many Black People in America face while doing everyday normal activities, like bicycling or jogging. The stories of people just freely living life and suddenly they’re facing a police encounter, because someone else felt uneasy about Black People enjoying themselves. Some of these stories were difficult to read, because in some of them a loss of life occurred…and more times than not, it wasn’t the life of the officer(s).

I enjoyed the artwork. It was powerful and expertly showed us, the reader, Black People as the beautiful humans they are.

OMG!! I LOVED THIS!

This book showcases some wonderful illustrations that each shows black people going about their everyday lives. This book shows black people in all of their wonderful differences and similarities. There is someone in this book that everyone can relate to, it allows us to see us through our own eyes and seeing it like this helps set us free. This book shows that black people are not one dimensional as some people think we are. There are many different versions and levels of us. This book shows that through these differences we are still alike in that we are all living while black.

This is a book that I will definitely be buying family members for Christmas.
Thank you to NetGalley and Chronical Books for the opportunity to read and enjoy this book.

In this book, we see a series of 40 portraits and descriptions of everyday acts Black people face resistance for doing on a regular basis. Reframing these as an act of resistance in the face of systemic racism and oppression, this book features things like "on campus while black." jogging while black, driving while black, golfing while black, and more. As a white person, the impact of this book shows how so many everyday activities bring with Black Americans danger. The illustrations are beautiful and the book is impactful.