D B MaysBlack Lives, Lines, and Lyrics is the first book by D.B. Mays, a highly decorated urban educator who has spent over two decades working on the local and national levels to promote education equity and support the education and empowerment of studentsin underserved schools and communities. In addition to her own lived experiences with institutional racism, racial and social injustice, and education, housing, and healthcare inequities, the Black Lives Matter movement and the victims of racial violence inspired her to write this work. Her poetry collection explores a variety of themes ranging from Blackness, discrimination, life, loss, trauma, racial violence, and revolution. She is also the author of the forthcoming historical fiction series The Tree of Anglee. A proud HBCU graduate and mother of two, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband. Read More Read Less