This was a truly wonderful collection to read, filled with heart, pain, history and truth. This collection will not be for everyone and that is ok! If the flow and structure of poetry is not your vibe this will probably be difficult to process. I think the authors did an amazing job with the range of topics to be enhanced. There were some where I connected instantly and others that took a little bit more brain power to really grasp what was being told! 

For this to be a YA, I wasn’t expecting the outros for each poem j think those took us out of the moment a little bit. That’s the beauty of poetry ,for me, is to really get you to sit in the moment and process the story that is being told and appreciate it. 

I would recommend this but just remember it’s an homage to our black history and there are difficult poems to hear and read but still very beautifully expressed.