this book is, simply put, incredible. i’ve never heard of Carruthers before or the BYP100, but the title as well as the synopsis was what piqued my interest.

if you’re looking out in the world and wondering what is going on and how we got here, please pick this book up. this took me over a week to read because i had so much to chew on and consider, so many things that i learned about and had never heard of before, like Black womens’ forgotten roles in the Civil Rights era, MLK’s friend and fellow activist Bayard Rustin (who was a gay Black man), Rosa Parks’s investigation and support of Recy Taylor, and the revolt of Haiti.

i would recommend this book for people already familiar with leftists ideas, are open to criticizing liberals and white progressives, and are hungry for more change than what our current patriarchal, white supremacist country can offer. there are a lot of terms that can go over people’s heads, so i would scale this as a “medium” in terms of informative, radical texts.

this short manifesto is powerful, thought-provoking, and of course unapologetic.