Revolution in Our Time, Kekla Magoon
Revolution in Our Time, Kekla Magoon
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Revolution in Our Time
The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People

Author: Kekla Magoon

Narrator: Tyla Collier

Unabridged: 7 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/23/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

With passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers—as militant revolutionaries and as human rights advocates working to defend and protect their community.

In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers’ community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers’ story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary socialist movement that drew thousands of members—mostly women—and became the target of one of the most sustained repression efforts ever made by the U.S. government against its own citizens.

Revolution in Our Time puts the Panthers in the proper context of Black American history, from the first arrival of enslaved people to the Black Lives Matter movement of today. Kekla Magoon’s eye-opening work invites a new generation of readers grappling with injustices in the United States to learn from the Panthers’ history and courage, inspiring them to take their own place in the ongoing fight for justice.

*Includes a downloadable PDF of a Timeline, a Glossary, and Key People from the book

About The Author

Kekla Magoon’s young adult novel The Rock and the River, which won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award, was the first mainstream novel for young people to feature the Black Panther Party. She is the Margaret A. Edwards Award-winning author of more than a dozen books for young readers, including Fire in the Streets and How It Went Down. She is also the coauthor, with Ilyasah Shabazz, of X: A Novel, which was long-listed for the National Book Award and received an NAACP Image Award and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Kekla Magoon grew up in Indiana and now lives in Vermont, where she serves on the faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tamyka on May 05, 2022

I highly recommend this young adult book about the history of the Black Panther Party and the broader fight for Black liberation. I was extremely familiar with the history of the movement and the Black Panther Party and I think this is a great introductory 101 text for students in 8th grade and up a......more

Goodreads review by Renata on January 23, 2022

Very compelling and engaging and gives a great amount of context to teens who might be involved with BLM but not have heard much real history about the Black Panthers. TRULY infuriating to read about the COINTELPRO shit honestly (a lot of which I as an adult reader already knew but anytime I read it......more

Goodreads review by Skip on December 29, 2021

An excellent, well-researched and thorough history of the Black Panther Party. Having extensively on the subject, I commend Kekla Magoon's efforts to discuss many of the positive elements of the Panther Party's social programs, but think she did not spend enough time on party leaders, especially Dav......more

Goodreads review by Olivia on January 16, 2024

This was an absolutely fascinating depiction of what the Black Panther Party was like. The book had a great balance of historical information and compelling narratives. The pictures were also really cool to see so this is not a good book to listen to. Enthralling all the way through and incredibly i......more

Goodreads review by Hoover Public Library on February 18, 2022

National Book Award Finalist, Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor Book, Michael L. Printz Honor Book, Walter Dean Myers Honor Book -- yeah, it's that good.......more