From the Book - First edition.
I. Care : Jamila Woods to Joycetta ; Tembe Denton-Hurst to her younger sister ; Nadia Owusu to her colleagues ; Joy-Ann Reid to her hair ; Bilquisu Abdullah on queer love ; Rakia Reynolds to Skai, Zoie, and Brammie ; Akili King to her unborn niece ; Joel Castón to dimples ; Barbara Edelin to Ken
II. Awe : Morgan Jerkins to Egypt ; Ben Crump to Thurgood Marshall ; Lynae Vanee Bogues on Black love ; Dick Parsons to jazz ; Douglas Kearney to Black-assed rasp ; Michael Eric Dyson to the Black church ; Imani Perry on Black love as grace ; Belinda Walker to Black America ; Jonathan Capehart to Uncle McKinley
III. Loss : Allisa Charles-Findley to Botham Jean ; Jeh Charles Johnson to mom ; Tarana Burke to grandma ; Natalie Johnson to her namesake ; Bill Whitaker to dad ; Justus Cornelius Pugh to ancestors ; Rhianna Jones to dad ; Mahogany Browne to Erika
IV. Ambivalence : Topaz Jones on "worry" ; Reverend Al Sharpton to his grandson ; Brianna Holt to self ; Jayne Allen to Blackness ; Kwame Dawes on fishing ; Cole Brown to Mama Brown ; VJ Jenkins to his unrequited love
V. Transformation : Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts to Louisville ; Alexandra Elle to self ; Deborah Willis to her son ; Brontez Purnell to eleven-year-old Michael Jackson ; Chef Rōze Traore to mom ; Sojourner Brown to self ; Jenna Wortham to inner critic ; Jan Menafee to water ; Danez Smith to family, Alphabet Mafia, Tish 'n' nem, Jayson nem, Langston nem, and maybe you ; Malachi Elijah to my Black body.
