Recognize!: An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life

In the stunning follow-up to The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love & Truth, more than 30 award-winning Black authors and artists come together to create a moving anthology collection celebrating Black love, Black creativity, Black resistance, and Black life. BLACK LIVES HAVE ALWAYS MATTERED. Prominent Black creators lend their voice, their insight, and their talent to an inspiring anthology that celebrates Black culture and Black life. Essays, poems, short stories, and historical excerpts blend with a full-color eight-page insert of spellbinding art to capture the pride, prestige, and jubilation that is being Black in America. In these pages, find the stories of the past, the journeys of the present, and the light guiding the future. Featuring stories and original art by Vanessa Brantley-Newton; Mahogany L. Browne; Paula Chase; Dhonielle Clayton; Lesa Cline-Ransome; Floyd Cooper; Pat Cummings; Sharon Draper; Lamar Giles; Nikki Grimes; Ekua Holmes; Cheryl Willis Hudson; Curtis Hudson; Wade Hudson; Tiffany Jewell; Keith Knight; London Ladd; Kelly Starling Lyons; Kwame Mbalia; DeRay Mckesson; Robert H. Miller; Denene Milner; Jerdine Nolen; Adedayo Perkovich; James Ransome; Ronald L. Smith; Nic Stone; Don Tate; Eric Velasquez; Carole B. Weatherford; Alicia D. Williams; Shannon Wright; Ibi Zoboi