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

Police killings, lengthy prison sentences, unequal access to education, housing, and jobs—America continues to have systems in place that will purposefully target and remove Black people from society, one way or another, one person at a time. Ben Crump, the attorney for Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, among others, wrote Open Season as a way to demand justice and protection for all Americans.