When Trees Testify by Beronda L. Montgomery magic theme shirt Once the most notorious rivals

Once the most notorious rivals in the music scene

Lisowski lays bare her own complex biography—spanning from a trans childhood in the South to the sweaty dancefloors of Brooklyn—and the family

Kent's alarmed to discover that his one-night stand is working on the installation

Montgomery explores the ways seven trees—as well as the cotton shrub—are intertwined with Black history and culture

But when her classmates start to believe this utopia could be real

When Trees Testify by Beronda L. Montgomery magic theme shirt Once the most notorious rivalsHow the Word Is Passed meets Braiding Sweetgrass in a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, shared through the stories of long lived trees. The histories of trees in America are also the histories of Black Americans. Pecan trees were domesticated by an enslaved African named Antoine; sycamore trees were both havens and signposts for people trying to escape enslavement; poplar trees are historically associated