Salvation: Black People and LoveWritten from both historical and cultural perspectives, Salvation takes an incisive look at the transformative power of love in the lives of African Americans. Whether talking about the legacy of slavery, relationships and marriage in Black life, the prose and poetry of Martin Luther King, Jr., James Baldwin, and Maya Angelou, the liberation movements of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, or hip hop and gangsta rap culture, hooks lets us know what love's got to

And most important

Bree's powers are unpredictable and dangerous

Patrisse's outrage led her to co-found Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi

and several new folk heroes will aid Tristan in his quest

Newcomers to these ideas might ask: Is the abolition of the prison industrial complex too drastic

sparkling romance--by the same unbeatable team of authors who wrote the New York Times bestseller Blackout

friendship

a sacrifice to end all future atrocities

Not to running a 10K

So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell

Janelle Monae

And other times he's afraid