Can we please give the police department to the grandmothers?

"A vision of a world where community care and safety are not the jobs of police, based on a protest poem written by Petrus after the police officer who killed Michael Brown was not charged."--

Main Author: Petrus, Junauda (Author)
Other Authors: Uroda, Kristen (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Dutton Children's Books, [2023]
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Summary: "A vision of a world where community care and safety are not the jobs of police, based on a protest poem written by Petrus after the police officer who killed Michael Brown was not charged."--
Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
ISBN: 9780593462331
0593462335
Author Notes: Junauda Petrus is a writer, pleasure activist, filmmaker and performance artist, born on Dakota land of Black-Caribbean descent. Her work centers around wildness, queerness, Black-diasporic-futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness, shimmer and liberation. Her debut novel, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them , earned a Coretta Scott King honor. She lives in Minneapolis with her wife and family.

Kristen Uroda is an artist best known for her vibrant, joyful illustrations. Often softly formed yet boldly colored, her work aims to express beauty in the ordinary moments, celebrate the poetry within diverse faces and figures, and tell stories that inspire reflection and social and civic change. While her career started in editorial illustration, she has most recently moved into narrative illustration with her first picture book. She is currently based in her hometown of Detroit, Michigan.