Long provides a clear timeline of the AIDS epidemic, showing how art has been an effective form of nonviolent protest with the power to communicate loss and grief, anger and frustration, hope and resistance. Long examines the discrimination and hatred people with AIDS faced from society and how they fought at every level to access healthcare that would save them. Over a decade of silence from those with power to help end the AIDS epidemic resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives. As the fight to find a cure continues, so does the need for people to read the history contained in this book.
Fight AIDS! by Michael G. Long, (List Price: $19.99, Norton Young Readers, 9781324053538, June 2025)
Reviewed by Lera Shawver, Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina