An insightful exploration of how the #BlackLivesMatter movement has galvanized the fight for Black liberation and civil rights in the United States.

Systematic brutality against Black people has always been part of the fabric of America.

But in the past decade, mobile phones have captured more evidence of police officers killing Black people.

These images sparked protests and civil rights activism on a scale the country hadn't experienced in decades.

In this book, scholar and activist Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor details the contextual history of systemic racism and its contemporary outcomes.

She presents clear links between race-based policy – even when it purports to be colorblind – and mass incarceration, poverty, and militaristic policing of communities of color.

Taylor is a professor in the African-American Studies department at Princeton University. She's an activist, author of Race for Profit, and editor of the anthology How We Get Free.