Thandisizwe Chimurenga

Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a Los Angeles writer and author of “No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant” (2014) and “Reparations ... Not Yet: A Case for Reparations and Why We Must Wait” (2015). Her writing has appeared in or at New America Media, the Los Angeles Watts Times, Sentinel and Wave newspapers, the Final Call, Black Agenda Report, Ebony, CounterPunch, Truthout and Daily Kos.

She is a contributor to “Why Don't The Poor Rise Up?” (AK Press, 2017); “Black Lives Matter: Lifespan Perspectives” (IndoAmerican Press, 2017); “Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?” (Haymarket Books, 2016); “Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence” (CounterPunch Books, 2014); UCLA’s Amerasia Journal in tribute to Japanese-American activist Yuri Kochiyama (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2014); “Fertile Ground: Memories and Visions” (Runagate Press, 1996); and the forthcoming “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Collected Essays/Stories on the Racialization of Murder.”