We remain dedicated to opening doors for others in the same way that they have been opened for us.

I urge you to serve our futures by always making time to read, to create first drafts, and to do the hard work of lovingly and critically revising.

What I do remember is the lingering knowledge and horror that my Boyness, my masculinity couldn't protect me.

Honey, my earth is merciful. You understand? / I call you mine not as ownership but because / you are a part of me.

I imagine it’s what astronauts feel like in space, only we didn’t need oxygen tanks. We hovered before deep, black nothingness.

After they discovered Till’s unrecognizable body in the Tallahatchie River, Carolyn Bryant, the woman Till made a slight gesture toward, testified in court that Till grabbed and verbally harassed her in a grocery store, stating, “I was just scared to death.”