Jan
19
11:30pm
How We Can Win | Kimberly Jones in conversation with Linda Duggins
By Cafe con Libros
A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, “How Can We Win.”
“So if I played four hundred rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for fifty years, every time that I played, if you didn't like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win? How can you win?"
When Kimberly Jones declared these words amid the protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd, she gave a history lesson that in just over six minutes captured the economic struggles of Black people in America. Within days the video had been viewed by millions of people around the world, riveted by Jones’s damning—and stunningly succinct—analysis of the enduring disparities Black Americans face.
In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice. Here, in a vital expansion of her declaration, she calls for Reconstruction 2.0, a multilayered plan to reclaim economic and social restitutions—those restitutions promised with emancipation but blocked, again and again, for more than 150 years. And, most of all, Jones delivers strategies for how we can effect change as citizens and allies while nurturing ourselves—the most valuable asset we have—in the fight against a system that is still rigged.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kimberly Jones is an activist, former bookseller and current host of the Well-Read Black Girl book club’s Atlanta chapter. She has directed feature films and cutting-edge diverse web series and has an overall deal with Warner Bros. Pictures. Jones is also co-author of the bestselling YA novels I'm Not Dying with You Tonight and Why We Fly.
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With a career that spans 25 years in the publishing industry,Linda A. Duggins believes that literature, the arts, community engagement, and reading are crucial elements to making the world a better place. For Edelweiss, as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, she develops and implements innovative and comprehensive strategies to engage publishing professionals, industry organizations, authors, and community partners. She provides insight into product and marketing strategy as well as supports the company’s cross-functional focus on dismantling racist and biased barriers by helping to provide opportunities for underrepresented beings while working to create inclusive and equitable spaces throughout the publishing industry. She is recognized for her achievements on behalf of Hachette Book Group USA where during her tenure she was Senior Director of Publicity and Director of Multicultural Publicity having successfully led the national campaigns for multiple genres, as well as countless breakout titles, including representing authors such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Misty Copeland, Leesa Cross-Smith, Pam Grier, Jane Goodall, and many others. Additionally, Linda is a Co-founder of the Harlem Book Fair, the nation’s flagship Black literary event promoting literacy and literary expressions with writers of the African Diaspora. She serves on the Board of Directors for the National Book Club Conference, whose mission is to advance literacy and knowledge through reading and dialogue. A native New Yorker, Duggins is also the President of the Board of Directors of the Queensbridge Scholarship Fund where she helps to facilitate continuing education scholarships for full-time college students who are residents of Queensbridge and Ravenswood Houses in Queens, NY.
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