Most of the books I read about Black Lives and race are narrated towards white people in an effort to better educate them about a life they don't live. The difference here is that the creators within this huge zine did not create their works for the white gaze. And it was kind of refreshing. Though I still have many blind spots, I have read quite a few works about race and black lives in the US (though I'm always on the hunt for works about Canada), and it was wonderful to have something that's just about black people living their lives and the struggles/injustices they go through addressed to a whole audience that isn't specifically to educate white people. I still learned a lot from this and it made me angry and sad and revved up, but it was also beautiful. 
I'd recommend having a phone close at hand (as the editors suggest in the introduction) to look up things you're not familiar with and to follow people on instagram and twitter whom you want to know more about.