Black Girl Rising

This enduring anthem for Black girls celebrates their power, potential, and brilliance-for themselves and for the world.

You are a thousand curls

unfurling in your hair.

You are a thousand fists

standing proudly in air.

You are the song of swallows,

lifting sun as they sing-

breaking light with their beaks,

breaking sky with their wings ...

Black girlhood is beautiful! In this deeply moving celebration and rallying cry, and in the face of the many messages that still work to convince Black girls tha...