Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & PrisonsAbolition for the People brings together thirty essays representing a diversity of voices political prisoners, grassroots organizers, scholars, and relatives of those killed by the anti Black terrorism of policing and prisons. This collection presents readers with a moral choice: "Will you continue to be actively complicit in the perpetuation of these systems," Kaepernick asks in his introduction, "or will you take action to dismantle them for the

But everything changed the night magic disappeared

When God gives you a purpose he will gather the troops to fulfill the mission

as well as the whispers of women--her mother

her blood runs gold

and feminist skewers our view of love as romance

She'd been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday

are the least of her problems

her grandmother's age-old adage just might still be true: Black girls must die exhausted

But the former sports star has issues of his own

Beauty as an expression of who you are is power

But as attraction flares between them and ancient evils stir

the first African-American president