We the 92% - An Anthology of Black Women's Witness

We the 92% exists to document and preserve Black women's witness of this pivotal moment in American history, creating a permanent literary and civic record of their experiences, perspectives, and truths before this moment passes without account.

Since the beginning of 2025, from the first Executive Order striking down DEIA, through ICE and Border Patrol shootings and killings of American citizens including Renee Good, Alex Pretti in Minnesota, Keith Porter Jr. in California, and Ruben Ray Martinez in Arizona, through Louisiana v. Callais gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the targeting of Black women in leadership in public service and the military, we have been documenting this period of unrest and upset. That documentation has become We the 92%: An Anthology of Black Women's Witness. It was 92% of Black women who voted to preserve democracy and in favor of our shared humanity in the 2024 election.

Marita Golden, award-winning author and co-founder of the Zora Neal Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, has just endorsed this work saying, "This anthology is an act of healing... the testimony I waited for and knew would come."

More than seventy-five contributors, nurses, poets, pastors, lawyers, federal employees, organizers, and grandmothers, have entrusted us with their essays, poems, prayers, and testimony. The book, independently published, goes to print in late October 2026.

The anthology is grounded throughout by original interviews with leading voices across fields touched by this moment: Elise Bryant on labor and unions, Karen Freeman Wilson on government and civil society, Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas on religion, Dr. Yolandra Hancock on medicine, Farai Chideya on journalism and politics, Dr. Thema Bryant on mental health, Dr. Martha S. Jones on history and the Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution, and Esosa Osa on technology through her work with Aisha.ai. These conversations anchor the collection's personal testimonies in broader context, tracing the throughline between one woman's story and the larger rupture in democratic and constitutional life.