KindredDana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or

The Meaning of Emancipation According to Black Women

fairy tales

will he finally be able to accept himself

Browne's Black Girl Magic or Jason Reynolds's For Everyone

In my family

A testament to the resilience of the African American community

stunning art are a radiant celebration of family

Marc Lamont Hill

Deka decides to leave the only life she's ever known

To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom--not merely reform--teachers

she recovers the recent events alongside a brief recollection from the night of her mother's death

That message would be self-evident in a just world