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Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin is a 2022 nonfiction book that blends memoir, social critique, and political imagination. Benjamin, a Princeton professor of African American Studies and the founder of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, uses the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the broader crisis of anti-Black racism to argue that social change can spread through everyday practices as well as institutional reform. Rather than treating justice as a distant ideal, the book presents it as something built through repeated acts of care, accountability, and community connection. Its purpose is both analytical and practical: to show how systems such as healthcare, schooling, and criminal justice reproduce inequality, and to identify ordinary choices that can help interrupt those patterns. The book is also shaped by Benjamin’s own experiences with family loss, motherhood, and organizing, which give the argument a personal and grounded perspective.