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Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors is coming to Bristol
One of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement, Los Angeles-based artist Patrisse Khan-Cullors, will be appearing at Waterstones later this month.
She will be introducing her memoir When They Call You a Terrorist, which she co-wrote with award-winning author and journalist Asha Bandele. The book recounts the events that led her to become a founder of the BLM movement.
From her arrest at the age of twelve and accounts of the brutal treatment of friends and family by the state, to the severe socio-economic disadvantages handed to those born in black majority communities like those she grew up in; dismaying personal experiences of racial and LGBT stigma to her first community campaigns as an activist, she builds an understanding of the cultural drivers of the issues of inequality, diversity, oppression and racism and why they need to be actively addressed from the ground up.
The book has received glowing reviews; “a powerful memoir” said Charles Kaiser in The Guardian, and “This book is a must-read for all of us” commented Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow.
Khan-Cullors will be in conversation with the celebrated journalist Gary Younge, editor-at-large for The Guardian and author of Another Day in the Death of America at Watersones Bristol Galleries on Monday March 12 from 7pm.
More information is available at www.ideasfestival.co.uk/events/patrisse-khan-cullors/
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