We explore racial prejudice and stereotyping through Poems by Grace Nichols and John Agard, as well as by Benjamin Zephaniah and Lemn Sissay in their own voices. We discuss Billie Holiday’s ‚Strange Fruit‘ and read two extracts about lynching from Jesmyn Ward’s novel ‚Sing, Unburied, Sing‘ (2014) ‚Black Lives DO Matter‘.