The Stars and the Blackness Between ThemTold in two voices, sixteen year old Audre and Mabel, both young women of color from different backgrounds, fall in love and figure out how to care for each other as one of them faces a fatal illness.

whatever they want to become

tiniest bit

but they can't deny their chemistry-or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since

their similarities and their differences as individuals and as mothers

Dimple's life has shrunk to the size of a phone screen

Our collective agony doesn't just affect African Americans

want every kid out there to know that they can reach for the stars and make their dreams come true

Connecticut as a chance to reconnect with his spiraling lover

a boy and his father take a joyful walk through the city

12-year old Josh Bell

You have sparks in your brain and fire in your heart

a former plantation-turned-maximum-security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18