Illuminations

Midnight Train to Georgia

by Nathalie Handal

My cousin the Army Captain
didn’t say much,
then one day he wrote to her:

Didn’t I adore you harder
than silence?

Didn’t you know
I kept trying to reach you

but kept appearing on the
other side of wherever I wasn’t?

Didn’t you know
I tore time into pieces read more »

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The Path To Rad Empowerment

Featuring: Elizabeth Acevedo, Mahogany Browne, Carrie Fountain, and Marilyn Nelson.

These writers bring to life real-world youth awakening to activism. They show young people of color for whom defiance holds the key to decoding the complexities of our shared histories.