From the Book - First edition.
Foreword / by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson --
Miracle child / by Sharon M. Draper --
Coloring outside the lines / by Jerdine Nolen --
James Baldwin's great debate / by Wade Hudson --
Black lives have always mattered / by Wade Hudson --
Famous blerds in history / by Keith Knight --
Hank Aaron Passes on the legacy / by Wade Hudson --
The storms and sunshine of my life / by Lamar Giles --
At our kitchen table / by Lesa Cline-Ransome --
Isn't it obvious? / by Nic Stone --
The slave mother / by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper --
Joy lives in you / by Kelly Starling Lyons --
Witness / by Nikki Grimes --
You are . . . / by Denene Millner --
Excerpt from What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / by Frederick Douglass --
Black boy reading / by Ronald L. Smith --
Self-reflection / by Kwame Mbalia --
Black butterfly / by Paula Chase --
Letter from Daisy Bates to Roy Wilkins: the treatment of the Little Rock Nine --
Darnella Frazier, eyewitness / by Carole Boston Weatherford --
How to be an activist / by Don Tate --
My hero is a Black cowboy / by Robert H. Miller --
Drumbeat, ring shout, roll call, cypher / by Ibi Zoboi --
An interview with DeRay Mckesson --
Mary McLeod Bethune's "last will and testament" / by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson --
Claiming my space / by Adedayo Perkovich --
Freedom in the music / by Curtis Hudson --
Back to myself / by Tiffany Jewell --
Recognize! / by Cheryl Willis Hudson --
The devil in the flowers / by Alicia D. Williams --
Your breath is a song / by Mahogany L. Browne.
