Part one. That lovin' feeling: poems: Wedding night / A. Van Jordan ; A black wedding song / Gwendolyn Brooks ; Autumn poems / Nikki Giovanni -- Haiku / Kwame Alexander ; Kupenda / Kwame Alexander ; Untitled / E. Ethelbert Miller ; After midnight / Jalal -- Nonfiction: Lamu lover / Doreen Baingana ; After she left / Will Bester ; Loving Johnny Deadline / Lisa Page ; One hundred days of bliss / Sonsyrea Tate Montgomery ; A shared history / W. Ralph Eubanks ; My own happy ending / Marita Golden -- Fiction: Chinaberry / Tina McElroy Ansa ; The history of the world / Veronica Chambers ; Coming clean / Nicole Bailey-Williams ; An act of faith / David Anthony Durham ; Barking in tongues / Kenneth Carroll ; Wilhelmina / Jonetta Rose Barras ; The story of Ruth / Victoria Christopher Murray ; A river to the moon / Anthony Grooms. Part two. Ties that bind: poetry: Why I will praise an old black man / HonoreĢe Fanonne Jeffers ; Acts of love / Kwame Alexander -- Nonfiction: When there's trouble at home / Lonnae O'Neal Parker ; At its best / Tracy Price-Thompson ; Becoming a grandmother becomes me--finally / Robin Alva Marcus ; Learning the name dad / Reginald Dwayne Betts ; My African sister / Faith Adiele ; Isaiah 9:6 / Brian Gilmore ; Grandpa Dutstun / Simone Bostic ; Silence...the language of trees / Abdul Ali ; Two cents and a question / L. A. Banks ; Love is a verb / Kim McLarin ; Missing you / Pearl Cleage ; From Finding Martha's Vineyard / Jill Nelson ; Love lessons / Patricia Elam ; The heart does go on / Debbie M. Rigaud -- Fiction: Geraldine's song / Felicia Pride ; Be longing / Stacia L. Brown ; Why we jump / William Henry Lewis.
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