Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black GirlhoodThis volume examines how Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths, or SOLHOT, a radical youth intervention, provides a space for the creative performance and expression of Black girlhood and how this creativity informs other realizations about Black girlhood and womanhood. Founded in 2006 and co organized by the author, SOLHOT is an intergenerational collective organizing effort that celebrates and recognizes Black girls as producers of culture and knowledge.

When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed

making a series of inappropriate sexual choices

Nina Simone

and head west to California to find her mother

even when you've written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly

but a move with her newly blended family from their small California beach town to the embattled Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs

Lowery grapples with a persistent if also largely unexamined aspect of the otherwise transformative presidency of Barack Obama: the failure to deliver tangible security and opportunity to those Americans most in need of both

At home she joins hundreds of thousands of Black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online role-playing card game

and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy

and opportunities facing teachers in diverse classrooms

he is the author of the New York Times bestseller For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood

fast-paced