No More Lies

<p><strong>Republished as part of Amistad's Literary Revival Program the groundbreaking bestselling look at history from the perspective of African Americans: an essential classic that continues to speak to us today written by the voice of black consciousness Dick Gregory--the incomparable satirist human rights and environmental activist health advocate social justice champion and NAACP Image Award-winning author.</strong><br/><br/>In 1972 during the Black Power Movement iconoclast Dick Gregory challenged one of the foundations of America itself--its history which had been written almost exclusively from the white male perspective. In <em>No More Lies</em> this true trailblazer gave voice to African Americans speaking their truth about the past and race relations in the United States.</p><p><em>No More Lies</em> offers this incomparable satirist's intellectual conspiratorial and humorous spin on the facts. No subject is off limits from his critical eye--Gregory examines numerous aspects of culture and history from the slave trade police brutality the wretchedness of working-class life and labor unions to the 1968 Civil Rights Act the Founding Fathers happy slaves and entrepreneurs. </p><p>Although this absorbing book is more than forty years old its provocative truths continue to reverberate in our lives today. With <em>No More Lies </em> Gregory inspire a new generation to connect what is happening today with what has happened in the past. </p>