But the only way to truly change anything is to believe that there is a problem. But you still have the opportunity to be better than we ever were. It’s difficult to change decades of programming, even if we need to try. Some will say you are too young to fully comprehend and I say you are in the perfect position to be a catalyst for the change we need. Because this is a pivotal, purposeful moment and I don’t want you to miss one second of it. What you are internalizing, what messages are being sent and lost…and I worry. In the midst of all this good trouble, I think of you young folk, wondering what you’re possibly making of all this.
As author Jason Reynolds wrote, “This is about a system that exists within this country that makes our lives seemingly a bit more expendable to the eyes of people in authoritative power who happen, most times, to be white.” This isn’t just about Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, or George Floyd. These protests that spread throughout the nation speak to the pain Black people have experienced. As my friend once put it, America is a pressure cooker set on high. Our nation has been creeping toward this inevitable explosion for over a century. A fire that should have taken no one by surprise. Agents: (for Clayton) Molly Ker Hawn, the Bent Agency (for Jackson) Natalie Lakosil, Bradford Literary (for Stone) Mollie Glick, CAA (for Thomas) the Bent Agency (for Woodfolk) Beth Phelan, Gallt & Zacker (for Yoon) Jodi Reamer, Writers House.Now here I am, watching my own city on fire. As each teen makes their way home, this joyful collaboration brings a necessary elation to stories of Black love, queer love, and alternative forms of affection, all of which are all tenderly highlighted in these narratives.
Featured between each stage of their journey are connections-some gentle, some combative, all thrilling-that involve characters falling in or professing their love across the city’s landmarks.
As the two reluctantly walk together back to Bed-Stuy, where Kareem is set to DJ a party after dark, they navigate their history and their love for each other. Just as they are about to find out who will receive the single opening, a blackout sweeps the city, causing chaos aboveground and under. Istrative error, is there for the same job. In a primary story arc, Tammi Wright is about to start her first day as the summer office assistant at the Apollo Theater’s Harlem headquarters when she runs into ex-boyfriend Kareem Murphy, who, due to an admin. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon, which follows six couples through a summer blackout in New York City. Young Black love glows throughout this collaboration by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D.
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