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Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads

Maybe someday

49

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

80/100

Critics

17/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Al Sharpton, Michael Eric Dyson

Publisher:

Hanover Square Press

Date:

September 29, 2020

Rev. Al Sharpton revisits the highlights of the Obama administration, the 2016 election, and Trump's subsequent hold on the GOP, and draws on his decades-long experience with other key players in politics and activism. He also amplifies the new voices and movements that have emerged in response to the Trump presidency.

What The Reviewers Say

Dan Kaplan,
Booklist
Written during the 2020 pandemic, a crisis that has laid bare the consequences of these inequities in our society, Sharpton’s urgent call for necessary societal changes includes chapters on racial justice, gender equality, LGBTQ rights, voter rights, police reform, immigration reform, and environmental justice. His gratitude to those who taught him and the debt he feels continue to sustain his faith and commitment to his mission. By sharing his own personal struggles and experiences, Sharpton offers inspirational lessons for today’s social justice activists and supporters of a just world—and for tomorrow’s..

Publishers Weekly
Sharpton interweaves memoir and progressive polemic in this impassioned survey of contemporary American politics.

Kirkus
... an impassioned call for activism.