20 Books About Black Lives Matter and Civil Rights to Put on Your Essential Reading List

Professor and journalist Marc Lamont Hill examines state violence in America, analyzing the deaths of Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Trayvon Martin, the government negligence that has prevented Flint, Michigan from having clean water, and the ways our authoritative and capitalist systems exploit certain groups more than others. Nobody looks at what it's like to be exactly that — a Nobody in twenty-first century America.