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We've created a list of books being published this year to commemorate the occasion and to guide us in this year of remembrance, reflection, and renewal. \u003c\/h4\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"instigators-atima-omara-9780063424876","title":"The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Essential to American Democracy (and What We Can Learn from Them)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA top Democratic Party strategist and media contributor offers a bold and urgent reminder that young Black women hold the key to saving our democracy and building a truly multi-racial future that benefits all Americans.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgitator. Troublemaker. Motivator. Initiator. Instigator.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"How can we build a truly inclusive multi-racial democracy?\" For Atima Omara, the answer is The Instigators--a name she has given to a demographic of Black women between the ages of 18 and 45. These women are uniquely equipped to save American democracy. They didn't ask for this ability, she argues. It was forced on them because racism and sexism have made them the most marginalized group in American politics. We can all benefit from their strategic know-how as we rebuild our society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack women have always been the most relentless instigators for change--building a democracy for all. Omara draws on her political knowledge and expertise, as well as history, to examine how they have responded to failed strategic decisions by movement leaders and the modern Democratic Party in previous elections as a context for the present. 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Indeed, people who played important roles in passing on Black memories that helped disrupt oppressively narrow perspectives on human life. Givens also attends to the labor involved in preserving Black history, especially in intellectual environments where it is constantly denigrated and undervalued, and he insists that more transparency about such processes is necessary to ensure this worthy tradition is passed on to future generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI'll Make Me A World\u003c\/em\u003e is a call to remember, reimagine, and reclaim an intellectual tradition built by communities well before our time, and to take seriously what is politically at stake in its preservation. 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