Award-winning viral curator and poet Natasha Marin follows up her acclaimed Black Imagination with a brilliant new collection of sharply rendered, breathtaking reflections from more than one hundred Black voices.

When do you feel most indigenous?
What does it sound like when you claim yourself?
When do you feel most powerful?

Black Powerful explores the monumental resilience, joy, and triumph of Black People everywhere.

'…Number one - there's a book called Black Imagination…by a woman named Natasha Marin. It's not technically a book for young people but I think young people could gain a lot from it. It's simply just a collection of notes and moments by people who are not famous, but just saying how they feel about what it means to be black, and the beauty of blackness.' – Jason Reynolds

'A proud chorus offers afrofuturistic visions, love, and a tall, cool glass of water for all kinfolk with hearts facing homeward.' — Ron Austin, author of Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar

'Natasha Marin’s Black Powerful is a beautiful convening of Black voices reflecting on what makes them rooted, powerful, and named. Black Powerful is a conjuring for a (re)imagined space of joy, a balm for our souls.' — Junie Désil, author of eat salt gaze at the ocean