Stayed on freedom brings into focus two unheralded Black power activists who dedicated their lives to the fight for freedom. Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons fell in love while organizing tenants and workers in the South their commitment to each other and to social change took them on a decades long journey that traversed first the country and then the world. In centering their lives, historian Dan Berger shows how Black Power united the local and the global across organizations and generations. Stayed on freedom is a moving and intimate portrait of two people trying to make a life while working to make a  better world.