Foreword / by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson -- Miracle child / by Sharon M. Draper -- Coloring outside the lines / by Jerdine Nolen -- James Baldwin's great debate / by Wade Hudson -- Black lives have always mattered / by Wade Hudson -- Famous blerds in history / by Keith Knight -- Passing on the legacy / by Wade Hudson -- The storms and sunshine of my life / by Lamar Giles -- At our kitchen table / by Lesa Cline-Ransome -- Isn't it obvious? / by Nic Stone -- The slave mother / by Frances Ellen Harper Watkins -- Joy lives in you / by Kelly Starling Lyons -- Witness / by Nikki Grimes -- You are . . . / by Denene Mackell -- Excerpt from What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / by Frederick Douglass -- Black boy reading / by Ronald L. Smith -- Self-reflection / by Kwame Mbalia -- Black butterfly / by Paula Chase -- The treatment of the Little Rock Nine, Central High School, 1957 / by Daisy Bates -- Darnella Frazier, eyewitness / by Carole B. Weatherford -- How to be an activist / by Don Tate -- My hero is a Black cowboy / by Robert H. Miller -- Drumbeat, ring shout, roll call, cypher / by Ibi Zoboi -- An interview with DeRay Mckesson -- Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune's last will and testament / by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson -- Claiming my space / by Adedayo Perkovich -- Freedom in music / by Curtis Hudson -- Back to myself / by Tiffany Jewell -- Recognize! / by Cheryl Willis Hudson -- The devil in the flowers / by Alicia D. Williams -- Texts / by Dhonielle Clayton -- Your breath is a song / by Mahogany L. Browne.