Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood

M. Billye Sankofa Waters: Liner Notes: Introducing a 20-Year Reflection - Grisel Y. Acosta: Hard Rock (The Truth about Jezebel) - Adrienne R. Washington/Diana A. Burnett: Examining Linguistic Continuity and the Richness and Multidimensionality of Black Atlantic Communicative Practices through the Lyricism of Lauryn Hill - Qiana M. Cutts: Blackgirl Praxis through Rhetorical Architecture: An Ethnopoetic Reading of Miseducation - Alexis McGee: Black Feminist Rhetorical Praxis: The Agency of Holistic Black Women in Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and Contemporary Works - Aja D. Reynolds: Give Me My Crooked Crown Momma - Grisel Y. Acosta: Nothing but Us - Dawn N. Hicks Tafari/Nwachi G.E. Tafari: Care for Me: One Black Girl's Road to Acknowledging the Ex-Factor - Grisel Y. Acosta: Revolution Mami - Raven Jones Stanbrough/Ashley Newby: The Rhetoric of the Womb: (Academic) Mothering in Trying Times on the Road to Zion - Geneva L. Sarcedo/Cheryl E. Matias: Forgive Them Father for They Know Not What They Do... But What If They Do Know?!: The Impact of Unforgivable Whiteness on Black and Brown Women - Sherell A. McArthur: My Sister, Myself: Why the Miseducation of Black Girls Requires Spaces and Places for Their Healing - Nazera Sadiq Wright: Saving Me Softly: A Black Girl in Japan - Sarah Abdelaziz: Father, You Saved Me - Robin M. Boylorn: "Somebody/anybody, sing a black girl's song": The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill as Blackgirl Autoethnography - Torie Weiston-Serdan: Tell Me Who I Can Be: Mentoring Queer Black Girls in Hostile Educational Spaces - Nadrea R. Njoku/Shawna M. Patterson-Stephens/Lori D. Patton/Maurisa Li-A-Ping/Ellise Smith: Fantasy, Reality, and What Is Needed: Debunking Fantasy and Centering Truth in Black Women College Students' Experiences - Jessica Edwards: Lauryn Hill and the Power of Digital Storytelling in Writing Classrooms - David Green: Lauryn Hill and Pedagogies of Critical Hip-Hop - Tara Betts: The Miseducation Was Ms. Lauryn Hill's

M. Billye Sankofa Waters is Associate Teaching Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Northeastern University. Her research interests include sociology of education, Black feminism, critical race theory, and qualitative inquiry. Venus E. Evans-Winters is Associate Professor of Education at Illinois State University in the Department of Educational Administration and Foundations. Her research interests are school resilience, urban education policy and reform, and the schooling of Black girls and women across the Diaspora. Bettina L. Love is Associate Professor of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on the ways in which urban youth negotiate Hip Hop music and culture to form social, cultural, and political identities to create new and sustaining ways of thinking about urban education and intersectional social justice.

"Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader is an education not to be missed! Each track is powerful on its own, but together, offer a collective portal for recalling just how hard we danced, loved, and decided differently, once The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill dropped. A critical care-informed community-inspired approach coupled with a loud love for Ms. Hill's artistry, this reader exemplifies how devastatingly profound is Ms. Hill's creative genius and impact. Just as it had to be, the editors curated deep truths and intimate knowledges about Hip Hop, healing, Black women's artistry, Black girls' lived experience, sacred wisdom, and critical pedagogy. Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood orchestrates a necessary intellectual beat drop, a pause from which to remember our memories, shape the present, and anticipate better tomorrows with all of our children telling us what is love and authoring more readers such as this that are absolutely worth the wait!"-Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Gender and Women's Studies and Education Policy, Organization and Leadership