Black love letters
Book - 2023
In this exquisite anthology of letters and illustrations, Cole Brown and Natalie Johnson bring together a constellation of influential Black figures to write to the people, places, and moments that mean the most to them. With a foreword from John Legend and contributions from Brontez Purnell, Morgan Jerkins, Reverend Al Sharpton, and Dr. Imani Perry, among many others, Black Love Letters is an ode to a phenomenal community: a testament to the fact that where there has been pain and suffering, there has also always been immeasurable, irrepressible joy and love.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Love letters
- Published
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New York, NY :
Get Lifted Books
[2023]
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- xxii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- ISBN
- 9781638931201
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Care
- Jamila Woods to Joycetta
- Tembe Denton-Hurst to Her Younger Sister
- Nadia Owusu to Her Colleagues
- Joy-Ann Reid to Her Hair
- Bilquisu Abdullah on Queer Love
- Rakia Reynolds to Skai, Zoie, and Brammie
- Akili King to Her Unborn Niece
- Joel Castón to Dimples
- Barbara Edelin to Ken
- Awe
- Morgan Jerkins to Egypt
- Ben Crump to Thurgood Marshall
- Lynae Vanee Bogues on Black Love
- Dick Parsons to Jazz
- Douglas Kearney to Black-Assed Rasp
- Michael Eric Dyson to the Black Church
- Imani Perry on Black Love as Grace
- Belinda Walker to Black America
- Jonathan Capehart to Uncle McKinley
- Loss
- Allisa Charles-Findley to Botham Jean
- Jeh Charles Johnson to Mom
- Tarana Burke to Grandma
- Natalie Johnson to Her Namesake
- Bill Whitaker to Dad
- Justus Cornelius Pugh to Ancestors
- Rhianna Jones to Dad
- Doug Jones to Dad
- Mahogany Browne to Erika
- Ambivalence
- Topaz Jones on "Worry"
- Reverend Al Sharpton to His Grandson
- Brianna Holt to Self
- Jayne Allen to Blackness
- Kwame Dawes on Fishing
- Cole Brown to Mama Brown
- VJ Jenkins to His Unrequited Love
- Transformation
- Tracey Michael Lewis-Giggetts to Louisville
- Alexandra Elle to Self
- Deborah Willis to Her Son
- Brontez Purnell to Eleven-Year-Old Michael Jackson
- Chef Roze Traore to Mom
- Sojourner Brown to Self
- Jenna Wortham to Inner Critic
- Jan Menafee to Water
- Danez Smith to Family, Alphabet Mafia, Tish 'n' nem, Jayson nem, Langston nem, and maybe you
- Malachi Elijah to My Black Body
- Acknowledgments
- Credits and Permissions
- Contributors
- About the Editors