Breath Better Spent Lifestyle Winner of the NAACP Image

Winner of the NAACP Image Award and finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize“A powerful work of lyric art

a young woman fighting her own war even as she and Hiram fall in love

500 Baltimore children who suffered lead poisoning between 2003 and 2015 were African American

Cooking is a pleasure and a respite

Breath Better Spent Lifestyle Winner of the NAACP ImageFrom the award winning author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing comes a new book of narrative in verse that takes a personal and historical look at the experience of Black girlhood In the American imagination the contrasts between visibility and invisibility for Black girlhood are glaring. A recent report by the African American Policy Forum states that while Black girls make up only 16% of the female students in schools, they make up half of