Student authors explore difficult topics in moving ways as they write about their personal encounters, lives, and the Black experience more broadly. Through both sadness and joyful hope, poems and narratives speak to public schools, light and dark, peace, humanity, and wet paint.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “The words of the young authors published in this book speak powerful truths. Rehumanize Me is an anthology written and led by Black youth from Minneapolis after the murder of George Floyd and the uprising which began in their home neighborhood of South Minneapolis. From the joyful freedom of a fall bike ride to the hungry power of a phoenix rising from the ashes, the subjects this anthology tackles showcase the depth and diversity of experience our Black youth have faced in recent times.”