Buckle Up, Black America

Black America does not need another book that simply tells us to stay encouraged.  We need a field manual.  Buckle Up, Black America is a direct, urgent, practical guide for navigating the America of 2026 and the decade ahead.  Lucius Alston challenges black readers to understand the environment without becoming afraid of it: confront injustice without surrendering personal agency; master artificial intelligence instead of watching another technological revolution pass us by; build wealth instead of merely displaying income: protect our health; strengthen our families; prepare our children: demand political accountability; and build institutions capable of surviving us.  This book refuses two easy explanations:  that every problem facing black America is our own fault, and that every problem is somebody else's fault.  Instead, it asks the harder question:  What can we understand, change, build, protect and pass forward now?