Publisher's Synopsis
About the Book
This book began as research, attempting to discover historical facts to teach while conducting workshops for all ages. As a poet every bit of information you consume has the innate ability to become the subject of your next work. This is the third book in the trilogy of black books. The first "The Black Book of Black, second "Steel Black", culminating with this one title "The Black Book of Black." I can't recall ever being this excited about writing, or reading any of my work. This book took time, it is called legacy edition because it is dedicated to my sons, daughters, who are still with us and my mother, father, mother in law and best friend who I call my honored ancestors. I'm at a loss to describe the content as anything other than my interpretation of history as I read it, see it and live it. You can't be black in America and not fear for your life. You will not be able to not pay attention to the number of video that surface of another unarmed person of color is unalived by protectors. Then comes the question. Why should anyone care about the past? I think there is a bit of truth in the one saying I hear repeated quite frequently, you know the one about history having to repeat itself. No matter how many before me attempted to share the truth, you could not know how the truth will tug at your soul until you find a way to release it. When asked why I tend to always write black, no answer needed. If you are paying attention to the number of black bodies awaiting heaven's entry; you would hurriedly write black too. This book is all about love. You will not know love until you love everyone around you. Those who despise you, the ones who stopped speaking, friends who forgot their title, family, the ones considering you enemy of the blood. I'm getting there, I feel it in my chest, in my pen, in my throat.
