Asha Bandele

At nineteen, Aya is a promising Black college student from Brooklyn who is struggling through a difficult relationship with her emotionally distant mother, Miriam. One winter night, Aya is shot by a white police officer in a case of mistaken identity. Keeping vigil by her daughter's hospital bed, Miriam remembers her own youth: her battle for independence from her parents, her affair with Aya's father, and the challenges of raising her daughter. But as Miriam confronts her past -- her losses and regrets -- she begins to heal and discovers a tentative hopefulness.

A Novel

Daughter

As a favor for a friend, a bright and talented young woman volunteered to read her poetry to a group of prisoners during a Black History Month program. It was an encounter that would alter her life forever, because it was there, in the prison, that she would meet Rashid, the man who was to become her friend, her confidant, her husband, her lover, her soul mate. At the time, Rashid was serving a sentence of twenty years to life for his part in a murder. This book is a testimony, for wives and mothers, friends and families, a tribute to anyone who has ever chosen, against the odds, to love.--From publisher description.

a memoir

The prisoner's wife

Patrisse Khan-Cullors

Eine Geschichte vom Überleben

# BlackLivesMatter

Patrisse Khan Cullors

Este libro de memorias poético y poderoso narra lo que significa ser una mujer negra en Estados Unidos y la cofundación de un movimiento que exige justicia para todos en «la tierra de los libres». Criada en un barrio empobrecido de Los Ángeles, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experimentó de primera mano el prejuicio y la persecución que sufren los afroamericanos a manos de las fuerzas del orden. Acosados deliberada y despiadadamente por un sistema de justicia penal que funciona según la agenda de privilegios de los blancos, los negros están sometidos a una categorización racial injustificable y a la brutalidad policial. En 2013, cuando el asesino de Trayvon Martin quedó libre, la indignación de Khan-Cullors la llevó a cofundar Black Lives Matter con Alicia Garza y Opal Tometi. Condenadas como terroristas y consideradas una amenaza para Estados Unidos, crearon una etiqueta que dio origen al movimiento para exigir responsabilidades a las autoridades que hacen la vista gorda ante las injusticias infligidas a las personas negras. Cuando te llaman terrorista es un relato empoderador de supervivencia, fuerza y resiliencia.

Una memoria del Black Lives Matter

Cuando te llaman terrorista

A Black Lives Matter Memoir

When They Call You a Terrorist

Following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, three women - Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Khan-Cullors - came together to form an active response to the systemic racism causing the deaths of so many African-Americans. They simply said: Black Lives Matter; and for that, they were labelled terrorists.In this empowering account of survival, strength and resilience, Patrisse Khan-Cullors and award-winning author and journalist asha bandele recount the personal story that led Patrisse to become a founder of Black Lives Matter, seeking to end the culture that declares Black life expendable. Like the era-defining movement she helped create, this rallying cry demands you do not look away.With foreword by Angela Davis.

How did a beautiful, talented college student fall in love with a man serving twenty to life for murder? And why did she marry him? At a time when one in four black men are caught in the web of the criminal justice system, asha bandele shatters the myths of prisoners' wives and tells a story of embracing the beauty of love in the ugliest circumstances and of people's ability to change, to do better, to grow. Whether she is describing her restricted but romantic courtship with Rashid -- when letters were like dates, like "whispers on the slow, blue-light dance floor" -- or riding the bus upstate with the other wives and girlfriends, asha bandele creates haunting images and reflections so powerful and unique that they beg to be reread and savored. At the same time that she recalls the extreme ups and downs that accompany a relationship constantly scrutinized by guards and surveillance cameras, she confronts her own dark secrets and sadness. The love of a man with an ugly past but a firm belief in redemption is what heals her broken spirit and grants her the courage and confidence to embrace life again. This is a love story extraordinary in its circumstances but universal in its message. With unblinking honesty, asha bandele writes about the tenuous balance of power upon which most relationships rest, the deep needs that bring two people together, the jealousy and insecurity that can drive them apart. But most of all, The Prisoner's Wife reminds us why we love -- what we give up for it and what we receive from it. An immensely gifted poet whom the Bay Guardian has called "an essential new voice in African-American literature," asha bandele has written a remarkably candid book that resonates with poetic language and abundant insight.

A Memoir

The Prisoner's Wife

Absence in the Palm of My Hands & Other Poems

Tony Medina

Offers poems on difficult topics, including rape, relationships, and the depths of sorrow.

New Poems: 1997-2005

The Subtle Art of Breathing

A young African-American poet describes how she fell in love with and married a man serving a prison sentence for murder, and explores the redemptive and healing power of love.

As a favor for a friend, a bright and talented young woman volunteered to read her poetry to a group of prisoners during a Black History Month program. It was an encounter that would alter her life forever, because it was there, in the prison, that she would meet Rashid, the man who was to become her friend, her confidant, her husband, her lover, her soul mate. At the time, Rashid was serving a sentence of twenty years to life for his part in a murder. The Prisoner's Wife is a testimony, for wives and mothers, friends and families. It's a tribute to anyone who has ever chosen, against the odds, to love.

Asha Bandele

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