Black Is a Rainbow Color Darshana Khiani An NCTE 2024 Notable Poetry

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Black Is a Rainbow Color Darshana Khiani An NCTE 2024 Notable PoetryA child reflects on the meaning of being Black in this moving and powerful anthem about a people, a culture, a history, and a legacy that lives on. Red is a rainbow color. Green sits next to blue. Yellow, orange, violet, indigo, They are rainbow colors, too, but My color is black . . . And theres no BLACK in rainbows. From the wheels of a bicycle to the robe on Thurgood Marshall's back, Black surrounds our lives. It is a color to simply describe some