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Faith, Love, and Joy: The Faith Adiele Issue

A headshot of Faith Adiele, dressed in red, against a background of a long street winding through trees.

Edited by Tara Christina, Ahmad Wright, and Rochelle Spencer

“What Faith Teaches Us: An Essay on Faith Adiele” by Rochelle, edited by Tara and Ahmad

#MyNigerianHusband, (A Graphic Novel) by Faith Adiele

An excerpt from the graphic novel by Faith Adiele

“Untitled: A Mural” by the Kiss My Black Arts Collective

“Untitled (SF Mural)” 10x30 ft Latex paint and Recycled wood.

“Music for the Dream” (short story); “Music for the Dream” (lyrics); Music for the Dream (song) “Outer Spaces,” “Qpid and Them,” Theorist of Sage,” “Unilogue” by Valerie Haynes Perry

Valerie Haynes Perry, picture via the author

The Rest Revolution: Considering the Work of Tricia Hersey, Ellen Sebastian Chang, Amara Tabor-Smith, Niv Acosta, Fannie Sosa, Ashara Ekundayo, Siha Collins, and Tiana Clark, by Evette Dionne and Rochelle Spencer

Tricia Hersey (http://www.triciahersey.com/), founder of the Nap Ministry (https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/)

The Yellow Mat Yoga Studio, site of a rest workshop by Tricia Hersey

“Felipe Vivant” (A Flash Novel with Images by the Author) by Gerald Leavell

Gerald Leavell (https://gleavell.art/about), photo credit Shan Wallace

“Nouri’s Rising” from LaRhonda Crosby

Image: La Rhonda Crosby Johnson

“Food for Life” (Flash fiction, trigger warning) by Ahmad Wright

Feeding Memories: An Interview with Tara Christina and Dera Williams, with a recipe from Shannon Holbrook

Playlists, Recipes, and Visual Art inspired by the Black Avant Garde Advisory Board (Faith Adiele, Reynaldo Anderson, Jacquelyn Bishop, Duriel Harris, John Keene, Kyla Marshell, Opal Moore, Asali Solomon)

Correction: The black-and-white image from Gerald Leavell should be titled “Figure in the Window,” Study 1 (Tweezy)

For more information about the journal, visit https://afropww2.afro.illinois.edu/