{"product_id":"9781595587718","title":"12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today","description":"\u003cp\u003eCalled a book “which is factual yet reads like a novel” by the \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003e12 Angry Men\u003c\/i\u003e reveals some pointed truths about our nation, as a dozen eloquent authors from across the United States tell their personal stories of being racially profiled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe hear from Joe Morgan, a former Major League Baseball MVP, who was tackled and falsely arrested at the Los Angeles airport; Paul Butler, a federal prosecutor who was detained while walking in his own neighborhood in Washington, D.C.; Kent, a devoted husband and father, hauled into central booking for trespassing and loitering when he visits his mother’s housing project; Solomon Moore, a former criminal justice reporter for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e , detained by the police while on assignment in North Carolina; and King Downing, former head of the ACLU’s racial profiling initiative, who was himself pursued by National Guardsmen after arriving on the red-eye in Boston’s Logan Airport.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA narrative of another America for men of color emerges in \u003ci\u003e12 Angry Men\u003c\/i\u003e as “a dozen brothers are allowed to give full vent to their feelings about [an] indignity routinely suffered by the majority of African American males” and, in doing so, reveal “a serious impediment to the collective American Dream of a colorblind society” (the nationally syndicated \u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Urban Media\u003c\/i\u003e ).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049873096944,"sku":"9781595587718","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781595587718_p0.jpg?v=1763812491","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781595587718","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}