Say Their Names: A Dual Anthology: Voices and Echoes of Black Lives in America - Softcover

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Say Their Names — A Dual Anthology: Voices and Echoes of Black Lives in America

This is not one story. It is many.

Say Their Names is a dual anthology that gives voice to lives too often reduced to headlines. It is Sandra, George, Trayvon, Breonna, Elijah, Tamir, Atatiana, Marcus-David, Tyre, Philando, Michael, Trey—and countless others. Their humanity, dreams, laughter, and love are remembered here.

• Part I: Voices — tells their stories in the first person, as though they had one more chance to speak. We walk beside them through ordinary days—playing in the snow, eating Skittles, celebrating graduation—moments that mattered long before tragedy.
• Part II: Echoes — carries those stories forward into the lives of fictional descendants, nieces, students, and communities. These echoes show how memory, courage, and creativity rise where lives were cut short.

Together, the two anthologies form a dialogue: one asks us to listen, the other asks us to respond.
More than remembrance, this collection is resistance to forgetting. It is testimony, carried into classrooms, conversations, vigils, and the work of justice. These stories insist that each life was more than its ending—each was a universe, and each still matters.

Say their names. Say them still. Say them always.

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