Recognize!: an anthology honoring and amplifying Black life

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

Passing 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 Mackell

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

America doesn't love us back / Floyd Cooper

Target / by Pat Cummings

Breonna Taylor, remember her name / Londond Ladd

A black boy's journey / by James E. Ransome

E Pluribus, II / by Ekua Homes

Brother's murder remix / Eric Velasquez

Give me fl owers / Shannon Wright

Empowered reader / by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Letter from daisey Bates to Roy Wilkins: The treatment of the Little Rock Nine, Central High School, 1957 / by Daisy Bates

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

Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune's last will and testament / by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson

Claiming my space / by Adedayo Perkovich

Freedom in 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.