Ace of SpadesAt Niveus Private Academy, Devon and Chiamaka are the only students chosen to be Senior Prefects who are also black, which makes them targets for a series of anonymous texts revealing their secrets to the entire student body. Both students were on track toward valedictorian and bright college futures, but this prank quickly turns into a very dangerous game and they are at more than one disadvantage as it looks like things could turn deadly.

filmmaker Oscar Devereaux Micheaux

Bitter exes

"In Cultivating Genius

the Weaver

and believe in a thing

Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin

and body positive messages for black women-to-be--and for the girl who still lives inside every black woman who still needs reminding sometimes that she is alright

the young girl is ready to return the next day to share her knowledge with her class

remarkable

There's the wedding-dressed woman with a little dog peeking out of her handbag

Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks--those that are honest about the past and those that are not--that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history

The fourteen essays and speeches collected in this work