I would assign more stars if I could. This book is truly a wonderful resource put together by the editors who included the voices of so many different contributors. With stories told by other writers, activists, artists, lawyers, DJs, teachers, entrepreneurs... You could flip this open to any page and get a different format, each speaking up about white supremacy. There are playlists, interviews, art pieces, a sermon, a comic which all fit together to communicate to the reader how these individuals are effecting change, and how, if they were so inclined, the reader could get ideas for how to do better too.

I’ll let the following quotes speak for themselves:

An excerpt from A Poem in Which No Black People Are Dead by Hanif Abdureaqib

“a whole city opens its cracked palms and holds the buzzing within.
in this poem, it sounds like prayer.
not the hushed kind, but the one that arrives on the lips
after a lover trusts you with their undoing.
the kind that comes from a table
where the spades are up and the tea is sweet.
here, everyone black is a church that never burns.
everyone black is the fire themselves.
eternal light, blood still hot and never on the pavement.
if heaven is a place of no pain, let this be heaven.”

“From the first captive arrival of Africans upon these North American shores to the present, the very essence of being a Black person in America has meant being in a perpetual state of resistance.” — journalist & activist Mumia Abu-Jamal

“I fight White Supremacy by being big Black in my small White town. I fight though I appear not to fight. My weapon is radical self-acceptance, a personal hospitality that lays down the I-am-because-we-are welcome mat of Black reception wherever I enter.... In small towns, the superiority complexes have a way of masquerading as White shame sans atonement, as a fake kind of humility, as a piousness in the wake of ‘well, we tried’ failures, as hands-up exasperation that believes it is we who haven’t shown up. So with my Black self, not only do I show up, but I show off. Big time.” — writer & editor Penny Wrenn

“As a parent, I fight for my own freedom to teach my children that they have dominion over their own bodies.... I once thought that being a Black woman civil rights attorney was the height of my personal revolutionary action. Now I know that parenting my children is the most revolutionary thing that I can do in this world. They need all of us more now than ever. They need our collective love and support. They need us to see them as children.”
— civil rights attorney, Rickell Howard Smith

“I fight White supremacy by telling our untold stories.” — media producer, Janelle M. Harris

“The government has counted me in. This just means that to resist White supremacy is to accept that there will be state or state sanctioned violence against you.” — educator & poet Tongo Eisen-Martin

“I have never seen a day where White Supremacy didn’t impact where I live, the work I do, or the way my child views herself. But I have faith that that day exists.... Faith that a force not seen is ordering our steps toward freedom. Onward.” — author, journalist, and co-editor of this book, Kenrya Rankin

“For a people who were seized and stripped of our bodily autonomy, our history, culture, language, and traditions, humor has always been a way for us to touch and care for one another. Laughing is an underground railroad for those of us lucky enough to ride its tracks.... real laughter is non-negotiable is you are to beat White supremacy. A major component of enslaving Black folks was keeping us terrified at the whims of untalented and ridiculous White people. Part of how we survived lies in how and why we laugh.”
— journalist and co-editor of this book, Akiba Solomon

Text conversation b/t co-editor Kenrya and a friend:
A: Does fighting or standing up for something mean you do it every day or every chance you get it just that one time or whenever it happened to come across you?
B: I think so. Cause a lot of people won’t even do that.
A: That’s true. I mean I was just thinking, Do I fight for anything? Like, I try to stand up for people when I seen them wronged, but do I really fight for stuff? Why don’t I? Is it because I’ve been conditioned to fall in line and not ruffle the norm? I don’t know.
B: Do what you can. You can’t fight everything, so do what you can.