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They combined ancestral magic and hyperlocal resources to respond to Black struggles in real time

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Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family

Belonging to the Air by Irons, Avery Dungy • Cornelius Eady •Honest "Bird" Bennett is a young Black girl with a hunger to learn what lies beyond the walls she shares with her mother, Maddy, and her grandmother, Odelia. Their home resonates with the hum of Maddy's sewing machine, echoes of Bird preparing supper, and Odelia's stories of times past. The women live in Bennettsville, Illinois, a freedmen's town established by Bird's great grandfather, where rural life pulses with church song and where peace is