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but august 28, 1955, emmett till is killed in mississippi. and his mama is screaming. she had an open-casket funeral so the world could see what they dealing with right now in ferguson or the same thing we're dealing with literally this week in baltimore again with korryn may. we're dealing with people who keep dying at the hands of state violence, and we're dealing with a black community that is trying to marshal the moral courage and the political energy to make a difference. and we always fight, and we will this battle, but it takes a considerable amount of energy and strength and planning and intellectual ammunition. and that's what i'm trying to give in this book. >> what happens if we don't get it? i can't imagine a world outside of resistance and struggle because we've always struggled, we've always resisted. at every moment where somebody said we were nobody, we've always said, "no." "ain't i a woman?" -- sojourner truth. "i am somebody." -- jesse jackson. "i am a man," civil rights leaders. "we are men." >> black lives matter. >> black lives matter. all of the