Black Girl Rising Beauty Rosewater and rose absolute wrapped

Rosewater and rose absolute wrapped in dried black currant leaves

and power of the modern Black experience

Tobacco leaf

© Magda Archer

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Black Girl Rising Beauty Rosewater and rose absolute wrappedBlack girlhood is beautiful! In this deeply moving celebration and rallying cry, and in the face of the many messages that still work to convince Black girls that they should shrink themselves, hide their light, know their place, Brynne Barnes and Tatyana Fazlalizadeh reclaim that narrative: A Black girls place is everywhere, and her selfhood is everything she can dream it to be. With poignant, poetic prose and striking, color drenched illustrations,