When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

Cofounder of Black Lives Matter, she is also a performance artist, Fulbright scholar, popular public speaker, and an NAACP History Maker. Patrisse Cullors is a artist, organizer, and freedom fighter from Los Angeles, CA. It is an empowering account of survival, strength and resilience and a call to action to change the culture that declares innocent Black life expendable. When They Call You a Terrorist is Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele’s reflection on humanity. She transformed her personal pain into political power, giving voice to a people suffering in equality and a movement fueled by her strength and love to tell the country-and the world-that Black Lives Matter. In 2013, when Trayvon Martin’s killer went free, Patrisse’s outrage led her to co-found Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi.Ĭondemned as terrorists and as a threat to America, these loving women founded a hashtag that birthed the movement to demand accountability from the authorities who continually turn a blind eye to the injustices inflicted upon people of Black and Brown skin.Ĭhampioning human rights in the face of violent racism, Patrisse is a survivor.

Deliberately and ruthlessly targeted by a criminal justice system serving a white privilege agenda, Black people are subjected to unjustifiable racial profiling and police brutality. For Patrisse, the most vulnerable people in the country are Black people. Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the prejudice and persecution Black Americans endure at the hands of law enforcement.

A poetic and powerful memoir about what it means to be a Black woman in America-and the co-founding of a movement that demands justice for all in the land of the free.

When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors