From Protest to Empowerment

About the Book

America has laid her foundation upon the backs of chattel slavery and exploitation. Once slavery was abolished, America thrived under the continued exploitation of Black people along with the rest of her proletariat through various forms of oppression. Now is the time for those of US who want to end the exploitation and oppression of the People to get involved.

Kommon Knowledge states in many of his poems that WE must become involved through resistance, organizing, and increasing our awareness in a society where some of the laws support injustices and where maintaining order only serves to uphold exploitation.

From Protest to Empowerment: Manifesto X & O is a collection of politically charged, socially conscious poetry that picks up where As WE Proceed: A Movement for the People leaves off.

About the Author

Kommon Knowledge is an educator and artist who resides in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has protested alongside many organizations including MoveOn, the National Action Network, and the Peoples’ Organization for Progress, as well as volunteered for the Revolutionary Communist Party and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A vocal supporter of the Cincinnati economic boycott, he advocates grassroots level activism as one of the most effective means for becoming involved with the struggle for change.