Author
Bestselling author of Black Boy Out of Time
Screenwriter
Award-winning Podcast, Screen and Television Writer
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Certified to offer end-of-life support
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Publishers Weekly: “Racebaitr editor-in-chief Ziyad merges astute sociopolitical analysis with soul-baring honesty in their striking debut memoir… with its candidness and sharp prose that doggedly links the personal to the political, Ziyad’s tale is engrossing and necessary.”
“Hari Ziyad is committed to recovering the unrecoverable; the seconds, the minutes, the hours of things shed and discarded as if there was no value to be found in what we were, even though it leads us to what we are.”
— Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets and creator of Son of Baldwin
“Every generation has their defining writers, and Hari Ziyad is one of ours.”
— George M. Johnson, bestselling author of All Boys Aren’t Blue and We Are Not Broken
“Hari Ziyad’s book details for the reader the possibilities and directions of Black freedom and healing today, and explores how we protect Black children from a perpetual cycle of trauma.”
— Cathy J. Cohen, author of The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics and Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics
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