For Gaza's Children: Progressive Black, Brown and Jewish Writers and Poets Speak Out
Marc Lamont Hill (Editor)
Haki R. Madhubuti (Editor)
Keith Gilyard (Editor)
Third World Press, 2025
[Publication date: February 11, 2025]
We firmly believe that our children are the stewards of our liberation.
When we prioritize our children, we are also prioritizing a world shaped by peace, safety, love and justice. When we protect our children, we are also protecting our most beautiful legacies and coveted traditions. When we invest in our children, we are also investing in our most audacious freedom dreams and our most impossible future worlds.
The children of Gaza, and indeed all of Palestine, are no different. Driven by this commitment, we have decided to assemble an anthology that prioritizes children. We hope to contribute to the present moment of radical resistance and revolutionary possibility by placing the lives, experiences, conditions, feelings, perspectives, and stories of the region’s children at the center of our social, cultural, moral, legal, and political analysis. For this anthology, we have chosen to exclusively spotlight the voices of progressive Black and Jewish American writers. In foregrounding Black and Jewish identities, including those writers who identify as both Black and Jewish, we hope to refute several dangerous myths about Black and Jewish Americans on the question of Israel/Palestine.
ABOUT THE EDITORS:
Haki R. Madhubuti is a best-selling poet, author, publisher, and educator, and is widely regarded as one of the architects of the Black Arts Movement and is founder and publisher of Chicago's Third World Press. Professor Madhubuti has published more than 37 books and his poetry and essays have been selected for more than 100 anthologies. In 1967, Madhubuti founded Third World Press, the oldest continuously publishing Black-owned book publisher in the United States. In 2015, the publishing house expanded its mission as Third World Press Foundation. Among his many awards, he received the Literary Legacy Award from the National Black Writers Conference for creating and supporting Black literature and for building Black literary institutions. Professor Madhubuti received his 5th Honorary Doctorate of Literature from Knox College in May 2022 and was also named University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Chicago State University. He was a recipient of the Pegasus Lifetime Achievement Award from the Poetry Foundation in October of 2022.
Since the 1970s, Keith Gilyard has made significant contributions to English studies as a writer, teacher, and participant in professional associations. His more than 100 publications include the influential education memoir Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence, the wide-ranging True to the Language Game: African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy, and the revivifying On African-American Rhetoric. He received an American Book Award for his biography John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism. His dozens of creative works include the novella The Next Great Old-School Conspiracy and the poetry volumes Dominant Seventh and Monologues.
