Valarie’s new book, “ See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love,” expands on her blockbuster TED Talk and is available now: /see-no-stranger As a lawyer, filmmaker, and innovator, she has won policy change on multiple fronts – hate crimes, racial profiling, immigration detention, solitary confinement, Internet freedom and more. Valarie now leads the Revolutionary Love Project to reclaim love as a force for justice in America. Valarie Kaur: Valarie Kaur is a seasoned civil rights activist and celebrated prophetic voice “at the forefront of progressive change” (Center for American Progress). Traci Blackmon for a conversation about Revolutionary Love, and how we can live into this awakening as people of faith. In her new book “ See No Stranger,” Valarie Kaur uses stories of police brutality and corruption, prison abolition and national protest movements to illustrate the power of Revolutionary Love as a force for justice. This uprising is possible because of movement leaders who have been in the labor for decades - now joined by newly inaugurated activists – and the many generations of freedom fighters, of ancestors that came before us. Revolutionary love is when you are brave enough to see no stranger. Millions more are rising up in solidarity.
Millions of us are flooding the streets, risking our lives, to call for justice since George Floyd’s public lynching. We are in the midst of an uprising for Black lives the world has never seen. As a nation, we are experiencing our own awakening right now.
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