| Event Alert: Book Signing in December |
Meet Jamala Rogers, Author of Ferguson Is America, on Dec. 5
On December 5, Community Change Inc. (CCI) and Haymarket People's Fund will co-sponsor a book signing for Ferguson is America: Roots of Rebellion with author Jamala Rogers, who is also a Ferguson activist.
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Location / RSVP Info
The book signing with author Jamala Rogers will take place:
Dec. 5 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
at the home of Amelie Ratliff at
65 Burroughs St. in the Jamaica Plain area of Boston
The house is directly on the corner of Burroughs and the Jamaicaway with the house number, front door, and doorbell all facing the Jamaicaway. You can call Amelie Ratliff at (617) 529-6894 if you have any "day of" questions or if you need parking accommodation due to disabilities.
As this is being held in a private home and seating is very limited, it is very important to RSVP to us to ensure your ability to attend.
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| "Ferguson Is America"
In the wake of fatal shooting of unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9, 2014, by Darren Wilson, a white police officer (and many other such tragedies that preceded and followed that), the first major book on the uprising in Ferguson has been released, asking, among other questions, "How will we make sure that Black lives matter?"
"There is no algorithm, no theory that can predict when human rage reaches its boiling point. I wanted to expose to some and to remind others that there is another side of Ferguson, St. Louis County, USA that exists," says Jamala Rogers. "This book is my best attempt to answer the question, 'Why Ferguson.' It explores the roots of the Ferguson Rebellion as I see it. I encourage you to join in this growing movement to challenge racism in the streets, in police departments and in the courts. One day the simmering cauldron of racism, economic exploitation and police violence bubbles over. And if we work together in a respectful and disciplined way, a new Ferguson, St. Louis, and USA, is possible."
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About Haymarket
Haymarket People's Fund gives money to grassroots groups of local organizations across the region who believe that change is possible. It has provided money to almost every major social justice movement in New England since 1974.
Haymarket People's Fund
42 Seaverns Avenue, Boston
(617) 522-7676
http://www.haymarket.org/ |
About CCI
CCI's work from 1968 until today has been to meet the challenge of "The White Problem," as we at CCI understand racism to be more than individual prejudice and discrimination based on race; it occurs when one group has the systemic power to institutionalize its prejudice in the forms of laws, policies, and ideologies that exclude and oppress other groups.
Community Change Inc.
14 Beacon Street, Room 605, Boston
(617) 523-0555
http://www.communitychangeinc.org/ |
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Jamala Rogers spent her childhood growing up in a working-class neighborhood with her four siblings in Kansas City, Mo. She came of political and cultural age in the tumultuous 1960s.
Jamala currently resides in St. Louis, Mo., where she has devoted all of her adult life to creating a child-centered, family-oriented community that embraces, celebrates and protects human rights for all citizens regardless of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation or religion. Because of the persistent barriers to this goal, it has naturally led her to being a leader in the struggle for justice, equality and peace.
Jamala is a featured columnist for the award-winning St. Louis American newspaper, St. Louis' largest Black weekly and is on the editorial boards of BlackCommentator.com and The Black Scholar. She has authored many articles for both local and national publications on issues that she is passionately involved in. She is the author of The Best of the Way I See It, a compilation of her political writings over the last 20 years. Her latest book is Ferguson is America: Roots of Rebellion.
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