Book Description: A Collection of Poems by long time writer and activist Julia Wright which amplify the current atmosphere in Palestine and the youngest victims of the ongoing struggle for liberation.
 
About the Author: Julia Wright is the eldest daughter of the late African American novelist, journalist and poet, Richard Wright, author of Native Son and Black Boy. Julia is a descendant of the survivors of the 1919 Elaine Massacre through her lynched great uncle, Silas Hoskins. A Pan Africanist, Julia served under Kwame Nkrumah until the CIA-abetted coup d'etat in Ghana in 1966. She subsequently worked with James Forman in SNCC and went on to attend the first cultural Pan African Festival in Algiers at the side of the Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party, Eldridge Cleaver and his wife, Kathleen Cleaver with whom she remained close. In Paris, France, she was the cofounder in 1995 of the Wednesday rallies for Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier, rallies that are still ongoing. She is a journalist, a poet, and is working on a memoir.