WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORIST is the memoir of Patrisse Khan-Cullors, one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement. It's a record of the experiences she and her family had growing up black and poor in Los Angeles, repeatedly victimized by the police and prison systems.

This book is written in the present tense, which brings home the awful fact that many of the things Khan-Cullors and her family members endured in the '80s and '90s are still happening to people today.

Through her very straightforward storytelling style, she points out every single place where no support was available for people like her family. No support for LGBTQ kids kicked out of their homes. No support for teens arrested for perceived transgressions. No support for a mentally ill person having an episode in prison. No support for a person leaving prison and returning home. All of these thing pile on a person and a family, making it impossible escape the life white America already assumed they lived.