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Table of Contents
Chapter
One: From Strong Roots
A Journey on Cane
River
-
Lalita Tademy
Ain't I a
Woman? - Sojourner Truth
(1797-1883)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Five Garbage Bags and a Dream - Darrell
Andrews
Something Unbelievable - Mary Spio
Miz Moore -E.
Joyce
Moore
Living History - Gary
K. Farlow
White Water - Jayme Washington Smalley
Funtown - Yolanda King
with Elodia Tate
The Day
I Walked and Walked - Brenda
McClendon, MSW
Ripples in the Pond -
Tyrone Dawkins
The Opening of A New World
- Malcolm X
Black Children DO Read! - Wade
Hudson
The Bionic Woman is Black - Lisa Nichols
The Lady at the Bus Stop -
Evelyn Palfrey
Over the Wall - Linda
Coleman-Willis
On Becoming
a Farmer - Jenee Walker,
M.D.
Buffalo
Soldiers
- Colin
L. Powell
What
Black History Means To Me - John
Horton
Chapter
Two: Celebrating Family
Remembering
Eric - Tracy
Clausell-Alexander
My Father’s Son - Mel
Donalson
Denied the Prize - Herchel E. Newman
In Sickness and in
Health - Dorothy C. Randle
The Letter -
Julane DeBoer as told to Bill Holton
We of One Blood -
Tracy Price-Thompson
My Sister,
Myself - Faith
Adiele
Where’s Your Notebook? - John
W. Stewart, Jr.
It Runs in the
Family - Jarralynne Agee
Fried
Chicken and Collard Greens - Thyonne Gordon
Rusty Feet - Landis
Mayers Lain
Walking to Wisdom -
Miiky Cola
Not Gone
Yet - Michelle
Gipson
Chapter
Three: Triumph and Resilience
Winners
Never Quit - Lisa Nichols
Hand Me Down Love -
Greg Franklin
The Fragile Eight - Isabel
Bearman Bucher
A Hard Working Man's Hands - Farrah
Gray
Divine Diva
Bishop - T.D.
Jakes
Light
at the End of the Tunnel - Leslie Banks
And, He Looks Just
Like Me - Brenda
McClendon, MSW
At the End of My Block - Lisa
Nichols
Excuse Me, Who's Just
Another Statistic? - Minister
Mary Edwards
My Mother's Gift -
Les
Brown
Chapter
Four: Accepting Me, Loving
you
Who's
That Calling My Name? - Vici Howard-Prayitno
Mother and Son Moment - Tinisha Nicole Johnson
Black N’ White Snapshots -
Judy Belk
I’m Coming Out - Nicole
Hodges Persley
The Skin We’re
In - Dominique
Morisseau
Lord, When
Will This Journey End - Myrtle
Peterson
Lord, Why Did You Make Me
Black? - RuNett Nia
Ebo
Majority of One - Lisa
R. Helem
Disappearing
Strands - Valerie M. McNeal
You Go, Salt And
Pepper! - Carol Ross-Burnett
I Owe You an
Apology - Lisa Nichols
Sister, I’m Sorry - Gregory
Huskisson
I
Am - Anthony M. Moore
More Alike than
Different - Mary
Cornelia Van Sant
The Nod - Kim Louise
Soothing the Soul of Racism - Ta'Shia Asanti
Cold Hands,
Warm Heart - Karen Waldman
Chapter
Five: Praise, Worship and Prayer
I
Heard the Voice of Jesus Saying Still to Fight On - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bedtime
Blessing - Catina Slade
Walking by Faith - Deborah Bellis
God Listens to Even the Smallest
Prayers - Ray
Driver
A Miracle for My Heart - Karlene McCowan
A Lesson Learned in an
Answered Prayer - Norka
Blackman-Richards
Let the Church Say Amen! - Melanie
M. Watkins
Life After
Death - Yvonne
Pointer
Chapter
Six: Lessons Learned
Confessions
of an Ex-Con - Dennis
Mitchell
Making Mistakes is Natural - Wally
Amos and Stu Glauberman
The Race We
Run Is Not about the Finish Line - Fran
Harris
Bondage of Fear - Howard
E. Lipscomb, Sr.
From the Mouth of Babes -
Dale G. Caldwell
Her Little
Light Shined - Arthur Bowler
Chapter
Seven: Making a Difference
A
Magical Moment With Ali - Woody Woodburn
Big Men, Big Hearts -
Phyllis
W. Zeno
Guess Who We’re Playing - Tony Ramos
My Momma Will Give Me More -
Gloria
Quinney
I Am
My Sister’s Keeper - Nikki
D. Shearer-Tilford
Meeting Maya - minerva Aka Gail Hawkins
Food from the Hood - Jaynell Grayson
One
Miracle at a Time - Mike Jones
Freedom -
Nelson Mandela
And
the Walls Came Tumbling Down - Cheryl
Dash
A Story of the South Bronx - Zev Roth
A Few Kind Words - Nancy
Gilliam
Angels All
Around - Patricia
Lorenz
Otis - Salome Thomas-El
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