![]() ![]() She is the sunny center of her family and community. In Hands Up!, a young girl with glowing brown-skin is the clear star of the story. Evans to visually communicate exuberant expressions of family and community love. McDaniel makes this gesture of resistance available and accessible to children in her joyful new children’s picture book Hands Up!, which is warmly illustrated by Shane W. The act of resistance quickly made its way onto the football field and the Grammy Awards’ stage – even members of the US House of Representatives were using it to protest police shootings of unarmed Black men and women.īreanna J. “Hands up,” a command that demands a gesture of compliance, was resignified by activists as a gesture of protest following the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. ![]()
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