Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers?
Narrator: Junauda Petrus
Imprint: Listening Library
Grades: Preschool - 3
Ages: 4-8 years
Release Date: April 04, 2023
0 Hours and 8 Minutes
List Price: $22
ISBN: 9780593663363
Categories:
Juvenile Fiction - People & Places - United States - African American & Black, Juvenile Fiction - Social Themes - Values & Virtues, Juvenile Fiction - Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism
Based on the viral poem by Coretta Scott King honoree Junauda Petrus, this picture book debut—adapted for audio—imagines a radically positive future where police aren’t in charge of public safety and community well-being.
Petrus first published and performed this poem after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. With every subsequent police shooting, it has taken on new urgency, culminating in the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, blocks from Junauda's home.
In its picture book incarnation, Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? is a joyously radical vision of community-based safety and mutual aid. It is optimistic, provocative, and ultimately centered in fierce love.
Petrus first published and performed this poem after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. With every subsequent police shooting, it has taken on new urgency, culminating in the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, blocks from Junauda's home.
In its picture book incarnation, Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? is a joyously radical vision of community-based safety and mutual aid. It is optimistic, provocative, and ultimately centered in fierce love.
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