What Kind of Bird Can't Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection by Dorsey N

Description: What Kind of Bird Can't Fly by Dorsey Nunn, Michelle Alexander, Lee Romney Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description "Charts Dorsey Nunns journey growing up poor and criminalized in East Palo Alto, surviving San Quentin, coming back to his community, and founding All Of Us Or None to empower formerly incarcerated people to fight for their rights as citizens"-- Publisher Description A decade behind bars spurs fifty powerful years of political and legal battles for freedom and human rights."Whoever wants to assuage their doubts that radical change is possible-from the level of the individual to that of law, culture, and society-should make time to read Dorsey Nunns extraordinary memoir." -Angela Y. Davis"Dorsey Nunn is one of the grand love warriors and freedom fighters of his generation! Dont miss his powerful and poignant story of tragedy and triumph!" -Cornel West"So much of what Ive come to know and understand over the years about the second-class status imposed upon people labeled criminals or felons Ive learned from Dorsey and the people who comprise All of Us or None, an organization he cofounded. Although I have fancy degrees and Dorsey does not, theres never been a time in our friendship in which he hasnt been schooling me-not so much in theory, but in practice." -From the foreword by Michelle AlexanderWhen Dorsey Nunn shuffled, shackled like a slave, into the California State carceral system at age nineteen, he could barely read. While caged he received an education he never could have anticipated. His first lesson: Prison had a color scheme, and it didnt match the larger society. On the inside, guards stoked racial warfare among prisoners while on the outside the machinery of the criminal legal system increasingly targeted poor Black and Brown communities with offenses, real or contrived. Nunn emerged from San Quentin after ten years behind bars, radicalized by his experience and emboldened by the militant wisdom of the men he met there. He poured his heart and mind into liberating all those he left behind, building a nationwide movement to restore justice to millions of system-impacted Americans.In this poignant, wry, and powerful memoir, Nunn links the politics of Black Power to the movements for Black lives and dignified reentry today. His story underscores the power of coalition building, persistence in the face of backlash, and the importance of centering the voices of experience in the fight for freedom-and proves, once and for all, that jailbirds can fly. Author Biography Dorsey Nunn began advocating for the rights of California prisoners and their families while incarcerated. As codirector of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC), in 2003 he cofounded All of Us or None (AOUON), a grassroots movement of formerly incarcerated people working on their own behalf to secure their civil and human rights. AOUON is now the policy and advocacy arm of LSPC, which Nunn has led as executive director since 2011. Collective victories include ending indefinite solitary confinement in California, expanding access to housing and employment for formerly incarcerated people, and restoring the vote to those on parole and probation.Lee Romney spent twenty-three years as a reporter at theLos Angeles Times, where she developed expertise in criminal justice and mental health. She is currently collaborating with a former public defender on the podcast November in My Soul.Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. She is a former Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and Soros Justice Fellow, has clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and has run the ACLU of Northern Californias Racial Justice Project. Alexander is a visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary and an opinion columnist for theNew York Times. The author ofThe New Jim CrowandThe New Jim Crow: Young Readers Edition(both from The New Press), she lives in Columbus, Ohio. Details ISBN 1597146323 ISBN-13 9781597146326 Title What Kind of Bird Can't Fly Author Dorsey Nunn, Michelle Alexander, Lee Romney Format Paperback Year 2024 Pages 368 Publisher Heyday Books GE_Item_ID:159472167; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! 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