KNOW YOUR PRICE: VALUING BLACK LIVES AND PROPERTY IN AMERICA’S BLACK CITIES Coming of Age Fiction and a New York Foundation

and a New York Foundation for the Arts and Commonwealth Short Story Award Finalist

"When the Game Was Ours" transports readers to an electric era of basketball and reveals for the first time the inner workings of two players dead set on besting one another

these abuses pointed to the degradation of Black motherhood--and the exclusion of Black women's reproductive needs in mainstream feminist and civil rights agendas

Edwidge Danticat

KNOW YOUR PRICE: VALUING BLACK LIVES AND PROPERTY IN AMERICA’S BLACK CITIES Coming of Age Fiction and a New York FoundationChanging perceptions about the worth of African Americans and their communities Know Your Price establishes new means of determining value of Black communities. The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities, stemming from America's centuries old history of slavery, racism, and other state sanctioned policies like redlining have tangible, far reaching, and negative economic and social impacts. Rejecting policies shaped by flawed