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Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future

Maybe someday

48

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

79/100

Critics

17/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Shaun King

Publisher:

Dey Street Books

Date:

August 4, 2020

Activist and journalist Shaun King reflects on the events that made him one of the most prominent social justice leaders of our time and lays out a clear action plan for you to join the fight.

What The Reviewers Say

Grace Jackson-Brown,
Booklist
Journalist, activist, podcaster, and social media influencer King, declared by Time magazine to be one of the 25 most important people in the world online, presents a mix of memoir and motivational treatise.

Kirkus
A blend of memoir and manifesto by Black Lives Matter leader King.

Publishers Weekly
King, a journalist and Black Lives Matter activist, debuts with an impassioned guide to becoming an 'effective change agent' in a time of 'deep systematic widespread suffering and oppression.' Drawing on the work of 19th-century German historian Leopold von Ranke, King contends that human history 'alternate[s] back and forth between improvement and regression,' and describes the current political moment.