{"product_id":"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Christopher R. Rogers","offers":[{"title":"Common Notions |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2026-02-13","offer_id":47353573736703,"sku":"9781945335501","price":27.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_d4bb497f-6d3b-44ac-993e-4630fb6e40d7.jpg?v=1760540864","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781945335501","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}