Table of Contents

Introduction

Prologue: Seeds From The Ancestors

Poem/ Letter

Part 1: What We Brought With Us
One: Mississippi
Two: AAVE
Three: Hiding In Plain Sight Forging A Pathway For Liberation

Poem/ Letter

Part 2: What Brought Us Together: The Black Press
Four: No Longer Will Others Speak For US
Five: Jefferson In LA
Six: Building And Reflection
Seven: The Harvest: The Psychological Shift Of The Black Community

Poem/ Letter

Part 3: Who Will Speak For Us Now?
Eight: Jefferson's Legacy
Nine: What I learned
Ten: The Metamorphosis Of The Black Press
Eleven: The Rise Of Black Twitter
Twelve: Who Will Speak For Us Now? The Black Press To Black Twitter

Retrospective: Negros Making History Now & Then (from The Liberator)

About the Author

Arianne Edmonds is a 5th generation Angeleno, archivist, civic leader, and founder of the J.L. Edmonds Project, an initiative dedicated to preserving the history and culture of the Black American West. She has curated and presented her research about Black history, memory, and legacy at several cultural institutions around the US. Her family archives stretch back to the 1850s and her story as the keeper of her ancestral records can be found in
The New York Times 1619 Project, The Root, and LA Weekly. She is currently a Senior Civic Media Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism funded by the MacArthur Foundation and a Commissioner for
the Los Angeles Public Library.