Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic

Bigger Than Bravery is an anthology of Black resilience and reclamation, featuring original essays and poems that explore comfort and compromise, challenge and resilience during the Great Pause that became the Great Call.

With contributions from award-winning authors and scholars such as Pearl Cleage, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Tayari Jones, Kiese Laymon, Imani Perry, Deesha Philyaw, Khadijah Queen, Jason Reynolds, Alice Walker, and more.

This anthology is a survival guide for those most harshly affected by the intersecting pandemics of Covid-19 and systemic racism.

Bigger Than Bravery captures the "first draft of history" with poems serving as deep breaths between narrative essays, forming a loose chronology of this unprecedented time.

This anthology is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the experiences and perspectives of Black people during this time of crisis.