Two must-reads by writer Keenga  Yamahtta-Taylor:
"FROM #BLACKLIVESMATTER TO BLACK LIBERATION" and
"RATS, RIOTS & REVOLUTION".

The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America. The Black Lives Matter movement has awakened a new generation of activists.
In this stirring and insightful analysis,  "FromBlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation',  activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation.
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In "Rats, Riots and Revolution: Black Housing in the 1960s",
through exacting research and urgent prose, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor demonstrates the way in which racism, redlining, and urban exploitation were not just expressions of white prejudice or generic anti-black attitudes.
Rather they were demonstrations of a "political economy of residential segregation."
Concisive. Explosive.