Booklist Editors’ Choice
WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World
WINNER – International Literacy Association (ILA) – Young Adult Nonfiction
HONOR – 2023 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights
Top 10 – In the Margins Book Award
Editor’s Choice - Booklist
Knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It’s magic.
That’s what the Black Panther Party did. They called up this magic and launched a revolution.
In the beginning, it was a story like any other. It could have been yours and it could have been mine. But once it got going, it became more than any one person could have imagined.