Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280).
Contents:
An aspect of freedom / Ama Codjoe -- A family vacation / Glynn Pogue -- This land is my land / Sean Hill -- Confronting the names on this land / Lauret Savoy -- An Urban Farmer's Almanac : a twenty-first century reflection on Benjamin Banneker's Almanacs and other astronomical phenomena -- Magic alley / Ronald L. Greer II --Concentric memory : re-membering our way into the future / Naima Penniman -- There was a tremendous softness / Michael Kleber-Diggs -- Water and stone : a ceremony for Audre Lorde in three parts / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Here's how I let them come close / Katie Robinson.
Summary:
"A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory"-- Provided by publisher.
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