Foreword. Memory divine / Carolyn Finney -- Introduction. More to be shaped by / Erin Sharkey -- An aspect of freedom / Ama Codjoe -- A family vacation / Glynn Pogue -- This land is my land / Sean Hill -- Confronting the names on this land / Lauret Savoy -- An urban farmer's almanac : a twenty-first-century reflection on Benjamin Banneker's Almanacs and other astronomical phenomena / Erin Sharkey -- Magic alley / Ronald L. Greer II -- Concentric memory : re-membering our way into the future / Naima Penniman -- There was a tremendous softness / Michael Kleber-Diggs -- Water and stone : a ceremony for Audre Lorde in three parts / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Here's how I let them come close / katie robinson.
Summary
"A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory"-- Provided by publisher.