They are as diverse as America. Young and old. Of color and white. Urban and rural. Immigrants and native born. They are students and teachers. Athletes and artists. La wyers\, doctors\, politicians\, farmers\, architects\, novelists\, and mor e. Names familiar and unfamiliar. Superheroes\, figuratively&mdash\;and in one case\, real! They have founded major corporations and grassroots orga nizations or struck out on their own.
\nBut as diverse a lot as they may be\, the people who tell their stories on these pages share one thing in common. Each is committed to fighting inequality and injustice. Each\, too\, can pinpoint a moment when they were moved to action\, when it beca me impossible to sit on the sidelines and just watch: when the teacher utt ered racial slurs\, when no one in the college club looked like they did\, when the city was on the brink of disaster\, when the authorities came fo r their undocumented mother\, when they discovered their ancestors enslave d people\, when the cop stopped them in their own driveway\, when there wa s no fresh food in their community\, when their right to vote was threaten ed.
\nIn \;The Moment\, \;New York Times \;bestselling a uthor Steve Fiffer presents an oral history from today's social justice ac tivists&mdash\;many of them still under thirty years old&mdash\;that is pi tch perfect for these dissonant times. First-person accounts\, that will i nspire us to act\, offer a blueprint for making change and\, perhaps\, mos t importantly\, give us hope for the future.
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\nSteve Fiffer \;is the author of the memoir: \;Three Quarters\, Two Dime s\, and a Nickel. \;Most recently he collaborated with the late civil rights icon\, Dr. C. T. Vivian\, on his memoir\, \;It's in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior. He also \;collaborated with Souther n Poverty Law Center co-founder Morris Dees on two award-winning memoirs\, \;A Season for Justice and Hate on Trial. He is the co-author of \;Jimmie Lee and James: Two Lives\, Two Deaths\, and the Movement that Cha nged America\, a Harlem Book Fair nonfiction finalist\; and with his wife Sharon wrote \;50 Ways to Help Your Community: A Handbook for Change.& nbsp\; \;Fiffer\, a graduate of \;Yale \;College and the Unive rsity of Chicago Law School\, is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Ot her books include \;Tyrannosaurus Sue \;and \;How to Watch Bas eball. \;He currently serves on the advisory board of the Chicago-base d Civic Leadership Foundation. He lives in Evanston\, Illinois.
\nAs hley M. Jones \;is Poet Laureate of the state of Alabama (2022-2026). She received an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University (FIU)\ , where she was a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellow. She serve d as Official Poet for the City of Sunrise\, Florida&rsquo\;s Little Free Libraries Initiative from 2013-2015\, and her work was recognized in the 2 014 Poets and Writers Maureen Egen Writer&rsquo\;s Exchange Contest and th e 2015 Academy of American Poets Contest at FIU. She was also a finalist i n the 2015 Hub City Press New Southern Voices Contest\, the Crab Orchard S eries in Poetry First Book Award Contest\, and the National Poetry Series. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in many journals and antho logies\, including \;CNN\, the \;Academy of American Poets\, POETR Y\, \;Tupelo Quarterly\, \;Prelude\, Steel Toe Review\, Fjords Rev iew\, Quiet Lunch\, Poets Respond to Race Anthology\, \;Night Owl\, Th e Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy\, pluck!\, Valley Voic es: New York School Edition\, Fjords Review: Black American Edition\, PMSP oemMemoirStory \;(where her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2016)\, \;Kinfolks Quarterly\, Tough Times in America Anthology\, and Lucid Moose Press&rsquo\; Like a Girl: Perspectives on Femininity Antholo gy. She \;received a \;2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer&rsquo\;s Award \;and a \;2015 B-Metro Magazine Fusion Award. She was an edi tor of \;PANK \;Magazine. Her debut poetry collection\, \;Magi c City Gospel\, \;was published by \;Hub City Press \;in Janua ry 2017\, and it won the silver medal in poetry in the 2017 Independent Pu blishers Book Awards. Her second book\, \;dark // thing\, \;won th e 2018 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry from Pleiades Press. \;H er third collection\, \;REPARATIONS NOW! \;was published in Fall 2 021 from Hub City Press. She won the 2018 Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize fro m Backbone Press\, and she is the 2019 winner of the Lucille Clifton Legac y Award from St. Mary&rsquo\;s College of Maryland. Jones is a recipient o f a Poetry Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and a&nbs p\;2020 Alabama Author award from the Alabama Library Association. \;S he was a finalist for the Ruth Lily Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship i n 2020\, and her collection\, \;REPARATIONS NOW! \;was on the long list for the 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She currently lives in Bi rmingham\, Alabama\, where she is founding director of the \;Magic Cit y Poetry Festival\, board member of the \;Alabama Writers Cooperative& nbsp\;and the \;Alabama Writers Forum\, \;co-director of \;PEN Birmingham\, and a faculty member in the Creative Writing Department of t he \;Alabama School of Fine Arts. Jones is also a member of the Core F aculty at the \;Converse University Low Residency MFA Program. She rec ently served as a guest editor for \;Poetry Magazine.
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