Assigned as essential reading to many local, Chicago organizers by prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba, Black Reconstruction in America: 1860-1880 by W.E.B. DuBois details the role that Black people played in reconstruction after the Civil War, when Black people were freed from slavery and began reconstructing American society.

Page May chats with Nathan Ryan of Grassroots Collaborative, and Debbie Southorn of American Friends Service Committee to discuss the book.