As Lowery brings vividly to life, the protests against police killings are also about the black community's long history of being on the receiving end of perceived and actual acts of injustice and discrimination. Studded with moments of joy and tragedy, They Can't Kill Us All offers a historically informed look at the standoff between the police and those they are sworn to protect, showing that civil unrest is just one tool of resistance in the broader struggle for justice. By posing the question 'what does the loss of any one life mean to the rest of the nation?', Lowery examines the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with failing schools, crumbling infrastructure, and too few jobs. In an effort to grasp the magnitude of the response to Michael Brown's death and understand the scale of the problem police violence represents, Lowery speaks to Brown's family and the families of other victims as well as local activists. Louis Post-Dispatch's 20 Books to Watch, fall 2016Ī deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.Ĭonducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri, to Cleveland, Ohio Charleston, South Carolina and Baltimore, Maryland and then back to Ferguson to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, corners of America today. One of the Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2016 - Elleġ1 Fall Books We Can't Wait to Read - Seattle Times One of the Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2016 - Publishers Weekly

They Can't Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery