Overturning the Culture of Violence by Penny Hess

This is a paperback book featuring a foreword by Omali Yeshitela. It focuses on the history of colonialism, systemic oppression, and the movement for reparations.

Key Details:

• Cover Design: The front cover features green borders at the top and bottom with a striking, red-tinted historical photograph of a large white mob standing behind what appears to be a burning pyre or victim.

• Content/Synopsis: The back cover describes the book as an "unrelenting testimony of the almost unimaginable crimes of white society," detailing history through the eyes of the enslaved and colonized. It spans from the genocide of pre-Columbian societies to the modern U.S. prison system. The book is presented as both a history lesson and a call to action, urging white people to join the movement for reparations to African people and help build a world free of oppression.

• Author Affiliation: The back cover includes a brief author biography and photograph. Penny Hess is identified as the Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee, a national organization working under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party to build a movement of white people's reparations to the African community.

• Cover Credits: The cover was designed by Burning Spear Uhuru Publications, with the cover photo credited to Culver Pictures, Inc.