BLACK LIVES HAVE ALWAYS MATTERED<\/a>, A Collection of Essays, Poems, and Personal Narratives,<\/em> edited by Abiodun Oyewole, extends beyond the Black Lives Matter movement\u2019s primary agenda of police brutality, to acknowledge that even when affronted with slavery, segregation and Jim Crow, racial injustice and inequality, black lives have always mattered. While written primarily by African American poets, writers, activists and scholars, selections are also from people of the Latino and African diasporas, and white activists.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”64px”][gsf_product_authors authors=”victorio-reyes-asili,kimberly-marie-ashby,dedria-humphries-barker,tara-betts,melba-joyce-boyd,charlie-r-braxton,lisa-braxton,alan-britt,kimberly-garrett-brown,layla-d-brown-vincent,wanda-easter-burch,anna-christian,janel-cloyd,ali-d-collins,sean-conroy,brittny-ray-crowell,fikisha-lois-cumbo,gabrielle-david,christina-marie-douyon,melissa-dunmore,angel-c-dye,christine-e-eber,gil-fagiani,karen-ford,clara-b-freeman,stephanie-freeman,f-i-goldhaber,emmanuel-harris-ii,william-harris,sean-c-harrison,joeann-hart,amelia-simone-herbert,maria-james-thiaw,esther-whitman-johnson,cynthia-leann-jones,jelesia-jones,s-baltimore-jones,quincy-scott-jones,j-kates,bettye-kearse,bernard-keller,erren-geraud-kelly,yael-kenan,kwaku-o-kushinanda,shirley-bradley-leflore,felipe-luciano,rasaq-malik,michelle-mann,kiara-manosalvas,samantha-mccrory,ronnie-mcgrath,c-liegh-mcinnis,marcia-l-mcnair,bob-mcneil,jesus-papoleto-melendez,abiodun-oyewole,george-cassidy-payne,dachardae-roncoli,michael-e-reid,herbert-ricks-jr,debra-r-riley,ellin-sarot,jeffrey-a-scott,ammy-sena,heather-siegel,mary-mclaughlin-slechta,john-warner-smith,shanna-l-smith,mark-b-springer,ayshia-e-stephenson,adam-szetela,vagabond,jason-vasser-elong,carletta-joy-walker,ran-walker,jalayna-walton,vicki-l-ward,tim-wood,kimmika-williams-witherspoon,deva-woodly,thelma-zirkelbach” items_per_page=”74″ columns=”4″ columns_md=”3″ columns_sm=”2″ columns_xs=”1″ columns_mb=”1″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”14411″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text el_class=””]BLACK LIVES HAVE ALWAYS MATTERED, A Collection of Essays, Poems, and Personal Narratives, edited by Abiodun Oyewole, extends beyond the Black Lives Matter movement\u2019s primary agenda of police brutality, to acknowledge that even when affronted with slavery, segregation and Jim Crow, racial injustice and inequality, black lives have always mattered. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15776","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2leafpress.org\/online22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2leafpress.org\/online22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2leafpress.org\/online22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2leafpress.org\/online22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2leafpress.org\/online22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15776"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/2leafpress.org\/online22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17085,"href":"https:\/\/2leafpress.org\/online22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15776\/revisions\/17085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2leafpress.org\/online22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}