Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?

Galleys available National Print Campaign: Columbia Journalism Review, Amnesty International newsletter, Philadelphia press, LA Weekly, SF Bay Guardian, Progressive, The Nation, In These Times, and elsewhere. Publishers Weekly & Booklist & Library Journal consistently give Mumia's books great reviews. Will send to Kirkus, as well. TV: MSNBC, Democracy Now, CSPAN Book TV, Marc Lamont Hill, Bill Moyers, among others. Web & Social Media: Promote book on freemumia.com, prisonradio.org, abu-jamal-news.com, mumia.org, z-net, Huffington Post , Goodreads, Shelf Awareness, City Lights Facebook, Twitter, blog, newsletter. Radio: We'll book Johanna Fernandez or a Mumia representative on Democracy Now and independent/community radio stations around the country and around the world. Organizational outreach: We'll connect with prison reform and abolition groups like Critical Mass and legal associations to promote the book & organize events. Remote presence at events may be possible. Past examples include calling/skype to the Baltimore Book Festival and Labyrinth Books in Princeton, NJ. Direct Mail: 6,000 postcards mailed to Noelle Hanarahan's Prison Radio Project Endorsements: consider seeking endorsement from parent of Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Jordan Davis, Eric Garner, Michael Brown Oscar Grant; “Mothers of the Movement”

A powerful indictment on the history of police violence against people of color, from slavery to today's Black Lives Matter."A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and inequalities, social movements, the criminal justice system, and African American history. An excellent companion to Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Ava DuVernay's documentary 13th."—Library Journal, Starred review "I was fortunate to grow up in a community in which it was apparent that our lives mattered. This memory is the antidote to the despair that seizes one of my generation when we hear the words 'Black Lives Matter.' We want to shout: Of course they do! To you, especially. In this brilliant, painful, factual and useful book, we see to whom our lives have not mattered: the profit driven Euro-Americans who enslaved and worked our ancestors to death within a few years, then murdered them and bought replacements. Many of these ancestors are buried beneath Wall Street. Mumia Abu-Jamal's painstaking courage, truth-telling, and disinterest in avoiding the reality of American racial life is, as always, honorable."—Alice Walker "Prophet, critic, historian, witness . . . Mumia Abu-Jamal is one of the most insightful and consequential intellectuals of our era. These razor sharp reflections on racialized state violence in America are the fire and the memory our movements need right now."—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Mumia Abu Jamal's clarion call for justice and defiance of state oppression has never dimmed, despite his decades of being shackled and caged. He is one of our nation's most valiant revolutionaries and courageous intellectuals."—Chris Hedges, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author of Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt "This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States. This is the book we need right now to find our bearings in the chaos." —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States In December 1981, Mumia Abu-Jamal was shot and beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find himself shackled to a hospital bed, accused of killing a cop. He was convicted and sentenced...