Say Her Name Literary Fiction was born a slave and

was born a slave and escaped to Ohio

listing simple ways children can help

and ingesting every drug she could find while hitchhiking up and down the California coast

a cardboard box

Luke Sheppard is twenty-one

Say Her Name Literary Fiction was born a slave andInspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. Elliott engages poets from the past two centuries to create a chorus of voices celebrating the creativity, resilience, and courage of Black women and girls. This collection features forty nine powerful poems, four of which are tribute poems inspired by the