A Park Stands on All of Our Graves - Paperback

Ali-Coleman, Khadijah Z.: - Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman, Ed.D. is a mother, community organizer and cultural architect with over 20 years of applied experience transforming places into arts and educational spaces. She is award-winning performance artist Khadijah Moon, and a multi-genre writer who is a playwright and filmmaker. She served as the second Poet Laureate of Prince George's County, Maryland from 2023-2025. Dr. Ali-Coleman is author of the published and forthcoming poetry collections Halos for Heroes, Friends and a Few People I Don't Like (2026), For the Girls Who Do Too Much (2024), The Summoning of Black Joy (2023), the children's book Mariah's Maracas (2018) and co-editor of the book Homeschooling Black Children in the US: Theory, Practice and Popular Culture (2022). Dr. Ali-Coleman is founding director of Black Writers for Peace and Social Justice, a 501(c)3 nonprofit started in 2024. She founded the multidisciplinary arts group Liberated Muse in 2008 and co-founded the national education research group, Black Family Homeschool Educators and Scholars, LLC (BFHES), in 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 quarantine. BFHES has provided a supportive space for over 3000 families since then, offering annual teach-ins and workshops. She is an associate professor in the Humanities department at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland.