Black Powerful: Black Voices on Origin and Selfhood

by Natasha Marin

Award-winning viral curator and poet Natasha Marin follows-up her acclaimed Black Imagination with a brilliant new collection of sharply-rendered, breathtaking reflections from more than two dozen Black voices.

What does it sound like when you claim yourself? When do you feel most at home in yourself? What is your relationship to Africa, real or imagined?

Black Powerful examines Black Americans' relationship with Africa and intersperses their reflections with Continental Africans' thoughts on Black Folk raised elsewhere in a monumental chorus of authentic joy, tragedy, and imagination. Black Powerful is one sacred act of witnessing.

Genres: Nonfiction

367 pages, Hardcover

Published April 26, 2022

Reviews

[Antonia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Picked it up in the middle of the evening and then couldn't put it down. Marin ask 100 Black people three questions and the book is just a compilation of their responses. Touching and poetic just like Black Imagination was!

[Luc they, them · Rating 4 out of 5]

Titled Black Powerful: Black Voices Reimagine Revolution on Scrib.

[Lori Gibbany · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very powerful and passionate stories of people from all over the world. A different perspective is found from each if you are open to hear it yet a connection is there from one to the other.