ContentsIntroduction --Section one :Emotions --Part I :Troubled minds : fearing and being feared --On Facebook, May 25, 2021 /Darnella Frazier --The Trayvon generation : for Solo, Simon, Robel, Maurice, Cameron, and Sekou /Elizabeth Alexander --Mother's day is a different kind of joy for Black moms in America /Dartinia Hull --Yet, we continue to march together /Michelle Duster --When George Floyd called for his mama, I felt pain : because I'm someone's mama /Vanessa Magic --Never free /Betty Winston Bayé --He called for his mother /Lottie L. Joiner --The lives of our Black men matter /Lynn Norment --George Floyd : "can we live?" : the daughter of civil rights activists on the question that's haunted her for decades /Tananarive Due --The more things change /Rosemary Bray Mcnatt --That lump in the throat that never goes away /Anita M. Samuels --The killing of Black men and boys by police and other Black men needs to stop /Jenice Armstrong --Part II :Special circumstances --"I'm just different" : disabled at high risk of harm by police /Angela P. Dodson --Always "the other" : young Black men on the spectrum /Geri Coleman Tucker --Mental illness while being Black : a mother's reflection on the death of her son /Iyunolu (Iyun) Osagie, PhD --Part III :The Black bogeyman : media and stereotypes --Mike Brown's shooting and Jim Crow lynchings have too much in common. It's time for America to own up /Isabel Wilkerson --Let's go to the videotape! /Audrey Edwarads --"Hope it's not a Black man" : racialized TV news and the "dangerous Black male" stereotype /Sharon Bramlett-Solomon --Motherhood, my two Black sons and media /Gina Gayle --Reflecting on Trayvon Martin's death in a post-Newton America /Rahiel Tesfamariam --Too close for comfort /Charisse Jones --Part IV :Close encounters : stops, arrests, and death --Stop and frisk /Ingrid Sturgis --Breathing while Black /Yanick Rice Lamb --"Thingifying" Black people /Patrice Gaines --"I can't breathe" /Sharon Leslie Morgan --Cousin Ray /Sonya Ross --Two Tonys : Black men and prison /Jackie Jones --A mother of suns /Donna Hill --The content of our character /Nicole Major --Section two :Activism --Part V :The talk : training our sons --Excerpted from a Black mother's survival guide for her teenage son /Meredith walker as told to Alysia Santo --After Jacob Blake and Kenosha, what good is the talk? Do words even matter? /Donna Brazile --Let's talk /Sandra Dawson Long Weaver --Part VI :Educating our sons --Saving our sons : reflections of my journey /Dr. Brenda M. Greene --Education as activism /Nicole Bailey-Williams --Private schools, Black boys, and racism : an unjust choice /Sheila Dean Brooks, PhD --Part VII :Race, Privilege and Justice --Why they kill us /Gloria J. Browne-Marshall --No justice, no peace : after Rodney King /Gayle Pollard-Terry --What chance did Trayvon Martin, the 'suspect,' have in court? /Mary C. Curtis --Yes, it is about race /Lisa Bloom --Derek Chauvin's guilty and so is the whole damn system /Goldie Taylor --The emerging movement for police and prison abolition /Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor --Part VIII :Healing and moving forward --George Floyd called for his mama. We need to answer /Amber Perry Rainey --Add another name to the roster of thoughts and prayers (the urgency/futility/fulfillment) /Dorothy Marie Rice --The traceable roots of police brutality in Black communities and how we feel /Dr. Brenda Wade --My brother was killed by the police. Now I ask, who does George Floyd belong to? /Donna Britt --Acknowledgments --Notes --Permissions.
