Into A Black Beyond Vol. I

Page 29

Give Me Something Senyah Haynes

He and She who loved me the most chanted it each and every time with the rhythmic strikes and blows on the fleshiest part of my behind and I know for a fact that He’d heard it from the She and She who’d loved Him the most and She may not have heard it from the He and She who’d loved her the most but They, being first generation free had DEFINITELY heard it from the He and She who’d loved them the most and I was today-years-old when the thought first dawned on me that the long line of He’s and She’s who’d loved Them the most had inherited a phrase quite malicious and vindictive in fact from the he and she who cared about them the LEAST I mean so little care they couldn’t even be bothered by inconvenient truths like the one that They were human and had been all along just like the He and She who’d made them now THAT really gives me something to cry about

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Can I flex? Can I live? Glenance Green

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pages 61-70

Immortality Dominicca Washington

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page 57

What Would I Tell the Children Who Aren’t Black

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The Creator Took His Time with You Kanoya Ali

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Check Please Santresa Harris

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I Am Me Caila Hall

1min
pages 54-55

Black is Not a Monolith Elizia Artis

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pages 52-53

Roseland” and “Through My Eyes” Djuana Florez

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pages 50-51

Complex Naimah Thomas

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I live in excess Johnny Page

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Inevitably Inevitable Santresa Harris

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blood money Kierra Wooden

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Let Us Be Great Djuana Florez

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pages 43-44

Ten Commandments Reimagined Glenance Green

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pages 40-41

what the stimmy bought me Elizia Artis

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Shackles OFF Aisha Truss-Miller

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pages 35-38

Writing in Racism Jauwan Hall

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Give Me Something Senyah Haynes

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Planned Obsolescence Kashif Johnson

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pages 24-26

America Goddam: Reimagined Naimah Thomas

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pages 30-34

Chicago Is Angry dr.moore

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pages 27-28

Define Our Own Freedom Dominicca Washington

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It’s Unforgivable Eugene Brown

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Indict America Jauwan Hall

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Ghost Stories Dimitri Hepburn

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Where Can I Go? Kierra Wooden

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Children are Precious Kanoya Ali

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Melanin March Naimah Thomas

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Nautical Joyride Aisha Truss-Miller

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Hard Histories Senyah Haynes

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To Know One’s History Glenance Green

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