Introduction: On Giving Testimony, or the Processes of Becoming -- pt. 1. A Spell of Finding: Beginning the Journey. A Spell of Finding / Trasi Johnson. The Ones Who Stole the Night / Ta-Nehisi Coates. Malik's Brother Died in 1963 / Myronn Hardy. The Fire This Time / Michael Datcher. Livin' Just Enough for the City / Jelani Cobb, Jr. In Remembrance Of / Taigi Smith. Memoirs after Surviving Well / Melanie Mims. Untitled / Jawanza Ali Keita. visitations / minkah makalani -- pt. 2. The Preserving: Family and Friends. Mississippi Midwife / Myronn Hardy. The Preserving / Kevin Young. uncle Tall twin / Tracie Hall. To Set upon a Shelf / Corey Olds. Questions I Have Not Asked My Mother / Sabrina Shange McDaniel. Yearning / Natasha Tarpley. the trio / Tracie Hall. Letters to My Sister / Deborah Turner. For My Sister / Lichelli Lazar-Lea. the wind still breezes your name / minkah makalani -- pt. 3. In Love and Trouble. we sit on the stairs sometimes / Yona C. Harvey.

In Testimony for the first time young African-Americans across the country express their own understandings of their generation's shared experiences - from racism in school to the politics of hair. One student considers the dynamics between Black men and women as he explores his own relationships; another writes of her decision to attend a women's college and the importance of women role models in her development. Others discuss the influence of Malcolm X and the impact of the Rodney King verdict on their lives. Through their compelling poetry and prose these student writers claim identities from fragmented lives, embrace themselves, and resurrect their spirits.

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