1919The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation's Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely discussed. In 1919, award winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event which lasted eight days and resulted in thirty eight deaths and almost 500 injuries through poems recounting the stories of everyday people trying to survive and thrive in the city. Ewing uses speculative and Afrofuturist

Designed to engage leaders in candid conversations about race and racism

For the Paynes

But they have each other's backs--just as always

And by embracing alternative spirituality and womanist theology

Alfonso's family and friends struggle with their grief and seek justice for Alfonso in the streets

three friends walking back from the community pool talking about nothing and everything

and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis

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Orphaned as a child

New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone takes Shuri to uncharted parts of Wakanda in this original adventure

adjunct professor of sociology

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