Ain't Burned All The Bright Gorgeous, blocky, black and red and peach illustration of a young Black boy, with text that reads "And I'm sitting here wondering why my mother won't change the channel" A cityscape burns beneath the text "and why the news won't change the story, and why the story won't change into something new" A street scene, all in dark charcoal greys and blacks, with a touch of red fire and the text: "instead of the every-hour rerun about how we won't change the world.
Ain't Burned All The Bright Gorgeous, blocky, black and red and peach illustration of a young Black boy, with text that reads "And I'm sitting here wondering why my mother won't change the channel" A cityscape burns beneath the text "and why the news won't change the story, and why the story won't change into something new" A street scene, all in dark charcoal greys and blacks, with a touch of red fire and the text: "instead of the every-hour rerun about how we won't change the world.

Ain't Burned All The Bright

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Author: Jason Reynolds

Illustrator: Jason Griffin

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Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds.

Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it, in one fell swoop, in about ten sentences, and 300 pages of art, this piece, this contemplation-manifesto-fierce-vulnerable-gorgeous-terrifying-WhatIsWrongWithHumans-hope-filled-hopeful-searing-Eye-Poppingly-Illustrated-tender-heartbreaking-how-The-HECK-did-They-Come-UP-with-This project about oxygen. And all of the symbolism attached to that word, especially NOW.

And so for anyone who didn’t really know what it means to not be able to breathe, REALLY breathe, for generations, now you know. And those who already do, you’ll be nodding yep yep, that is exactly how it is.

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