Standing in the Need of Prayer

Author Carole Boston Weatherford adapts the words of the classic spiritual to emphasize the many black figures of the past who have used prayer to cope with horrendous situations, including enslaved people, Nat Turner, soldiers of the American Civil War, the people of the Great Migration, the Tuskegee Airmen, black musicians, Ruby Bridges, Martin Luther King Jr., black athletes, Colin Kaepernick, and the members of the Black Lives Matter movement.