This Is Not for You: An Activist's Journey of Resistance and Resilience

We are excited to you bring you a great book from a wonderful Brotha!!!  This Is Not For You tells the story of activist and photographer Richard Brown, a Black Portlander who has spent decades working to bridge the divide between police and the Black community. His memoir brings readers with him into the streets with fellow activists, into squad cars with the rank-and-file, and to regular meetings with mayors and police chiefs. There are very few people doing the kind of work Richard Brown has done. And that, as he sees it, is a big problem.   The book finds Brown approaching his eightieth birthday and reflecting on his life. As he recalls his childhood in 1940s Harlem, his radicalization in the newly desegregated Air Force, and his decades of activism in one of America's whitest cities, he questions how much longer he'll do this work, and he wonders who, if anyone, will take his place.   This is a book about how and why to become an engaged, activist citizen, and how activists can