"An engrossing read,
No Human Involved is meticulously researched and compassionately written. It offers a fresh perspective on community and police investigations of serial homicides. Cheryl Neely argues convincingly that law enforcement's systematic disregard for Black girls and women leaves them vulnerable to serial killers. She writes with great care for victims and their families and issues a call to action for increased awareness, education, and efforts to combat all forms of gender violence. This essential and heartrending book is a must-read for anyone concerned about justice in America."
--Kidada E. Williams, author of
I Saw Death Coming "
No Human Involved is a powerful read. This timely book contributes to our understanding of contemporary Black women's and girls' alarming homicide rates, Black criminalization, and police indifference, laying bare the horrific consequences of societal neglect. With painstaking care, Cheryl Neely presents a compelling documentation of women's murders yet goes beyond narratives of death, piecing together victims' lesser-known stories of family and community.
No Human Involved is a call to action, challenging us to hold police accountable, to fight for justice for the forgotten, and to wholeheartedly commit to Black women's and girls' survival and futures."
--LaShawn Harris, author of
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy "Cheryl Neely's latest,
No Human Involved, grapples in deeply personal and poignant detail not just with the cold reality that Black lives have stunningly little value to the police, to the media, and to city hall in America's major cities, but with the even more chilling fact that the lives of Black women have mattered not at all. Via the stories of Black women who have been lost to the record and for whom the justice system rarely rallied, this powerful book calls upon us all to remember the stolen lives of Black women and to demand that they now be seen, heard, and protected."
--Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
