Part I : Troubled minds : fearing and being feared
On Facebook, May 25, 2021 / Darnella Frazier
The Trayvon generation : for Solo, Simon, Robel, Maurice, Cameron, and Sekou / Elizabeth Alexander
Mother's day is a different kind of joy for Black moms in America / Dartinia Hull
Yet, we continue to march together / Michelle Duster
When George Floyd called for his mama, I felt pain : because I'm someone's mama / Vanessa Magic
Never free / Betty Winston Bǎy
He called for his mother / Lottie L. Joiner
The lives of our Black men matter / Lynn Norment
George Floyd : "can we live?" : the daughter of civil rights activists on the question that's haunted her for decades / Tananarive Due
The more things change / Rosemary Bray Mcnatt
That lump in the throat that never goes away / Anita M. Samuels
The killing of Black men and boys by police and other Black men needs to stop / Jenice Armstrong
Part II : Special circumstances
"I'm just different" : disabled at high risk of harm by police / Angela P. Dodson
Always "the other" : young Black men on the spectrum / Geri Coleman Tucker
Mental illness while being Black : a mother's reflection on the death of her son / Iyunolu (Iyun) Osagie, PhD
Part III : The Black bogeyman : media and stereotypes
Mike Brown's shooting and Jim Crow lynchings have too much in common. It's time for America to own up / Isabel Wilkerson
Let's go to the videotape! / Audrey Edwarads
"Hope it's not a Black man" : racialized TV news and the "dangerous Black male" stereotype / Sharon Bramlett-Solomon
Motherhood, my two Black sons and media / Gina Gayle
Reflecting on Trayvon Martin's death in a post-Newton America / Rahiel Tesfamariam
Too close for comfort / Charisse Jones
Part IV : Close encounters : stops, arrests, and death
Stop and frisk / Ingrid Sturgis
Breathing while Black / Yanick Rice Lamb
"Thingifying" Black people / Patrice Gaines
"I can't breathe" / Sharon Leslie Morgan
Two Tonys : Black men and prison / Jackie Jones
A mother of suns / Donna Hill
The content of our character / Nicole Major
Part V : The talk : training our sons
Excerpted from a Black mother's survival guide for her teenage son / Meredith walker as told to Alysia Santo
After Jacob Blake and Kenosha, what good is the talk? Do words even matter? / Donna Brazile
Let's talk / Sandra Dawson Long Weaver
Part VI : Educating our sons
Saving our sons : reflections of my journey / Dr. Brenda M. Greene
Education as activism / Nicole Bailey-Williams
Private schools, Black boys, and racism : an unjust choice / Sheila Dean Brooks, PhD
Part VII : Race, Privilege and Justice
Why they kill us / Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
No justice, no peace : after Rodney King / Gayle Pollard-Terry
What chance did Trayvon Martin, the 'suspect,' have in court? / Mary C. Curtis
Yes, it is about race / Lisa Bloom
Derek Chauvin's guilty and so is the whole damn system / Goldie Taylor
The emerging movement for police and prison abolition / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Part VIII : Healing and moving forward
George Floyd called for his mama. We need to answer / Amber Perry Rainey
Add another name to the roster of thoughts and prayers (the urgency/futility/fulfillment) / Dorothy Marie Rice
The traceable roots of police brutality in Black communities and how we feel / Dr. Brenda Wade
My brother was killed by the police. Now I ask, who does George Floyd belong to? / Donna Britt
