Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance Binding:Paperback May 25 2021

May 25 2021

in love with Billie Mae

because of a spate of murders that transpired the year before

" —Book Riot

As each character searches for a foothold

Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance Binding:Paperback May 25 2021From the Ignatz and Eisner Award winning cartoonist Ben Passmore comes a whirlwind graphic history of Black life, taken by force Its the summer of 2020, and downtown Philly is up in flames. Youre not out in the streets with everyone else? Ronnie asks his ambivalent son, Ben, shambling in with arms full of used books: the works of Malcom X, Robert F. Williams, Assata and Sanyika Shakur, among others. Black liberation is your fight, too. So begins Black