It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Fight The Power is a groundbreaking two‑volume series that exposes the deep roots and ongoing consequences of the War on Drugs, tracing how policy, policing, and political narratives have shaped generations of harm in Black, Brown, and poor communities across the United States. Blending historical analysis, cultural critique, and lived experience, Dr. Carl L. Young illuminates the structural forces that created today’s landscape of mass criminalization while honoring the resilience, brilliance, and organizing power that have always existed within these communities. Across both volumes, readers follow the journey of Tanisha Monette, a young woman whose life has been directly shaped by the policies she now fights to dismantle. In Vol. 1, Tanisha confronts the legacy of the War on Drugs within her own family and community, awakening to the systems that have defined her world. In Vol. 2, she steps into a new chapter of leadership, joined by her siblings as they build momentum inside Justice Now, a grassroots movement committed to truth‑telling, healing, and structural change. Together, the two volumes offer a sweeping yet intimate portrait of struggle and resistance revealing not only how the War on Drugs came to be, but how a new generation is rising to end it. Urgent, accessible, and deeply human, the series invites readers to understand the truth, confront the harm, and join the fight for collective liberation.
In A Son’s Reckoning, Dr. Carl L. Young, PhD confronts the silence of paternal absence and the weight of systemic neglect with poetic precision and clinical insight using his life's truth as the vehicle. This trauma-informed memoir traces a journey from survival to transformation, offering readers a mirror, a map, and a manifesto for healing. Published by Front Line Publishing, this is not a story of blame it’s a call to truth, care, and personal healing.
A searing indictment and a visionary call to action, It Takes a Nation of Millions To Fight The Power exposes the generational trauma, systemic injustice, and racialized surveillance at the heart of America’s war on drugs. Blending memoir, philosophy, and clinical insight, Dr. Carl L. Young, PhD traces the human cost of punitive policy and invites readers into a collective reckoning where healing, resistance, and radical reimagining begin.