{"product_id":"my-city-need-something-9781945335501","title":"My City Need Something","description":"\u003ci\u003eI don't know what's going on \/ But I know that something's wrong.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving between word and image, the call-and-response collaboration between writer Christopher R. Rogers and photographer Karim Brown improvises a contemporary portrait of present-day Black Philadelphia, replete with the unfinished activism present since the transnational upsurge of the George Floyd Uprising.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd I know that lately \/ My city has been crazy.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArriving five years after the crucible of that period, this experimental essay-as-LP challenges Black Philadelphians to prioritize the urgency of reckoning with our own hang-ups and half-steps and to reground ourselves within the daily, prefigurative life-work of rehearsing Black liberation. This is a hyperlocal, future-forward recommitment to ongoing principled struggle and a hopeful model of contemporary self-criticism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd I don't know what it is but my city need something \/ I swear we need something different but I don't know what it is.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe title takes its inspiration from the late, beloved Uptown Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock, whose successful mixtape single \"My City Need Something\" challenged us all to strive for clarity in a ubiquitously-consumed, and altogether presumed, Black suffering in a city resplendent with Black joy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Common Notions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945335501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112","brand":"Christopher R. Rogers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52085603467445,"sku":"9781945335501","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_4317a48c-f37c-4d3b-86c5-3cdf24c28d90.jpg?v=1765294664","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/my-city-need-something-9781945335501","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}