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Souls of Black Folk & Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Up from Slavery (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

by W.E.B. Du Bois

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As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by Zoé Samudzi

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Abolishing the prison industrial complex (PIC) is not just about ending prisons but also about creating an alternative system of governance that is not based on domination, hierarchy, and control.

“We reject pedestals, queenhood, and walking ten paces behind. To be recognized as human, levelly human, is enough.”
― Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

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