Whether it’s family history, historical references to national monuments, or authenic stories of African American survival in Baltimore's forgotten neighborhoods, three esteemed authors seek to unravel myths, reveal injustices, and in their own way, examine what it means to be truly seen in light of complicated history. How the past is present - still- in us.” Listening to these stories will likely encourage one’s own deep exploration into family, or place, color and status, and long-held myths in families and communities. A prizewinning scholar of Black history, including Vanguard, Martha S. Jones, the author of the trouble of color: an American family memoir delves into her family’s past for answers, and delivers a “deeply felt meditation on the most fundamental matters of identity, belonging, and family.” Irvin Weathersby is a Brooklyn-based writer, a professor from New Orleans, and the author of In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynold’s says, “helps us examine some of the stone grotesquerie erected and living among us—the remainders of before, the reminders of blood. And in doing so with such care, he’s granted us this work, a new monument to gaze at.” Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead is a professor at Loyola University Maryland and the founding executive director of the Karson Institute for Race, Peace, & Social Justice. She is also the host of the award-winning radio show Today with Dr. Kaye on WEAA, 88.9 FM, and the author of five books, including the recently released my mother’s tomorrow: dispatches from Baltimore’s Black Butterfly. AFRO Special Projects Editor, Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware says her work “brings to the community the ever-sounding alarm, “Injustice over here,” and she does it with historical acumen and spiritual determination.”