The Black Cell

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Pub Date 27 Sep 2022 | Archive Date 16 Aug 2022

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It's 2024 and police brutality against Black people is at an all-time high in Baltimore and across the country. Corey Masters, a young Black man, is deeply troubled by experiences of racism during his childhood. After a false arrest and beating by police, Corey's anger is at boiling point. It is then that his roommate introduces him to the Baltimore Cell, one of many secret groups around the country recruiting and training Black people for armed resistance.

Corey joins the Cell and meets Tasia, a young single mother who is trying to find a place in the world for herself and her toddler daughter. Both Corey and Tasia become involved in the Cell's armed resistance against white supremacy. The U.S. is on the verge of electing a new president, who will bring to power a group called The Alt, which is determined to return Black people to slavery. The Cell joins with La Lucha (its Latinx counterpart), which is organizing armed resistance to protect Latinx residents and immigrants. Together, the two groups maintain a growing membership in the millions.

The Black Cell is a Black dystopian fantasy, grounded in the author's experience as a Baltimore activist, professor, and social service leader. Unapologetically targeted to Black readers and others interested in Black liberation, this will appeal to readers of utopian fantasies.

It's 2024 and police brutality against Black people is at an all-time high in Baltimore and across the country. Corey Masters, a young Black man, is deeply troubled by experiences of racism during...


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Ebook: 9781735027340

Ebook: 9781735027340


Advance Praise

The Black Cell illuminates the many facets of Blackness and the destructive power of whiteness. Shaia's ruthless perceptiveness in depicting the mechanisms of a racist society is equaled by the finesse of her draftsmanship in crafting the inner lives of characters shaped by—and resolved to dismantle by any means necessary—those mechanisms."
—Lawrence Lanahan, author, The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide

“Wendy Shaia has increased the volume on voices that are often not heard by magnifying the existences of Baltimoreans that are often not seen. Through her intense and real storytelling, Wendy introduces us to the Black people of Baltimore, that they are alive and living through the traumatic effects of racism. She captures the struggles and complexities of inferiority of Black people, which is the constant effort to be heard, seen, and to feel normal.”
—Barbie Johnson-Lewis, LCSW-C, President, Board of Directors, National Association of Social Workers MD Chapter; Founder, Lotus Healing Services

The Black Cell illuminates the many facets of Blackness and the destructive power of whiteness. Shaia's ruthless perceptiveness in depicting the mechanisms of a racist society is equaled by the...


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PAGES 442

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