Wasatch County Library

"With [this book], ... Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems--like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more--she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various ways in which the reader can find entryways into change in these same areas, or can bring some...

A "work of narrative nonfiction telling the forgotten story of the mass killing of eleven Black farmhands on a Georgia plantation in the spring of 1921--a crime that exposed for the nation the existence of 'peonage,' a form of slavery that gained prominence across the American South after the Civil War. ... By turns police procedural, courtroom drama, and political exposé, [this book introduces] readers to three Americans who spearheaded the prosecution...