Reviewed by Brad Manker Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: During the summer of 2020, young Washington, D.C., resident Breonna laments her loss of freedom during the COVID-19 lockdown and loss of community during Black Lives Matter protests. One day while she and her family are watching a news broadcast, she magically travels through time […]
Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers?
Reviewed by Kimberly Ellis Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: As Ruth Wilson Gilmore reminds us, “Abolition is not absence; it is presence. What the world will become already exists in fragments and pieces, experiments and possibilities.” Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers?, written by Junauda Petrus and illustrated by Kristen […]
Smoky Night: Misguided Effort to Help Kids Understand Rodney King Events
Reviewed by Beverly Slapin Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: On April 29, 1992, an almost all-white jury in the almost all-white suburb of Simi Valley acquitted four white Los Angeles Police Department officers of using assault and excessive force in the videotaped beating of a Black man named Rodney King. On the evening following […]
Painting for Peace in Ferguson Paints Over Truth
Reviewed by Lena Amick Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Painting for Peace in Ferguson by Carol Swartout Klein is a dismaying example of good intentions gone wrong. Using art to unite and heal in the face of adversity is a beautiful thing, but this book of photographs and trite, demeaning explanations of the unrelenting […]