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In Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?, Mumia gives voice to the many people of color who have fallen to police bullets or racist abuse and offers the post-Ferguson generation advice on how to address police abuse in the United States. This collection of his radio commentaries on the topic features an in-depth essay written especially for this book to examine the history of policing in America, with its origins in the White slave patrols of the antebellum South and an explicit mission to terrorize the country's Black population.

In May of 1976, twenty-four-year-old Carol Menaker was impaneled with eleven others on a jury in the trial of Freddy Burton, a young Black prison inmate charged with the grisly murders of two white wardens inside Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. After being sequestered for twenty-one days, the jury voted to convict Mr. Burton, who was then sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The Price of Being Black is not just a book — it's a real-life chronicle of injustice, survival, and unstoppable spirit. Written by a man who has lived through systemic racism, wrongful accusations, and a legal system designed to break him, this book is a bold testimony of truth. From courtroom battles to personal betrayals, the author reveals what it's like to be both Latino and Black in America — misunderstood by your own people and feared by others. Through moments of heartbreak, resilience, spiritual awakening, and revelation, he invites listeners into a world few dare to explore.