How We Can Win

Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged

By: Kimberly Jones

Narrated by: Kimberly Jones

A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, “How Can We Win.”

“So if I played four hundred rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for fifty years, every time that I played, if you didn't like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win? How can you win?"

When Kimberly Jones declared these words amid the protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd, she gave a history lesson that in just over six minutes captured the economic struggles of Black people in America. Within days the video had been viewed by millions of people around the world, riveted by Jones’s damning—and stunningly succinct—analysis of the enduring disparities Black Americans face.

In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice. Here, in a vital expansion of her declaration, she calls for Reconstruction 2.0, a multilayered plan to reclaim economic and social restitutions—those restitutions promised with emancipation but blocked, again and again, for more than 150 years. And, most of all, Jones delivers strategies for how we can effect change as citizens and allies while nurturing ourselves—the most valuable asset we have—in the fight against a system that is still rigged.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

Informative

This book speaks volume to the current problems faced in our black community and serves as a guide in many areas. GET IT!

Great Job!

She speaks the truth and offers solutions. Loved the book from start to finish. Thank you.

A critical addition to the literary canon

Kimberly Jones masterfully achieves what many struggle to do. Hold a mirror up to American and allowing us to truly see ourselves for who we are.

Must read

This Queen is spread her knowledge to the masses in way for us to all understand and relate. Thanks to her interview on the Breakfast Club. She is the truth

Information that needs to be known!

I learned a few new things while listening to Ms. Jones pour her heart out in this book. I'm excited about the possibility of people being able to absorb the content because it is well presented.