A story before we begin
Part I: Black. All about me: 1970s-'80s Black girl edition
The wisdom of Solomon and Laura Ingalls
Roots
Rumble in the jungle
Shiny baubles and trinkets and stones
The rapture of the royal wedding
Gale force winds
Love like that
The white lion takes her coffee black
Part II: Woman. Dear Phyllis Schlafly, greetings from the dark side of the moon
Jimi Hendrix lands on the moon
The stuff I'm made of
Deadly beautiful
Very dark, very beautiful
Public enemy haiku
Black mammy beauty
What Tamir Rice's mother said
Black single mothers are made of stardust
Jubilee day for afros
The beautiful
Part III: Holy. A bedtime fable
Jovie, a modern retelling of the story of Job
Monroe, the stormtrooper
Well-don
Prayer of petition for the canonization of Sister Thea Bowman
Princess Nada P. Jones
Who shot Mickey?
The dark side of mercy
More groves than O.J.
Mommie and me at the well
Eleanor Bumpurs lives next door to Mr. Cosby
Marcie Alvis living
Sandy (still) speaks
Of loss and lament
Afterword. Wakanda: Where Breonna lives forever
Not enough and too many books.