Black Girl RisingThis enduring anthem for Black girls celebrates their power, potential, and brilliance for themselves and for the world. You are a thousand curls unfurling in your hair. You are a thousand fists standing proudly in air. You are the song of swallows, lifting sun as they sing breaking light with their beaks, breaking sky with their wings . . . Black girlhood is beautiful! In this deeply moving celebration and rallying cry, and in the face of the many

Morris is President/CEO of Grantmakers for Girls of Color and co-founder of the National Black Women's Justice Institute

And the restless dead

An aspiring lifestyle influencer with a terrible and wayward boyfriend

For Clement

on a day full of quarrels

Jason Reynolds conjures ten tales (one per block) about what happens after the dismissal bell rings

CEO of the nation's largest marketing firm

It could also endanger her life

Maggie won't let Daisy destroy her son

you're working through feelings of burnout

and after years of trying

Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois's words all too well