When Cassandra Lane becomes pregnant at thirty-five, she turns to creative nonfiction to recreate her great-grandparents' history, which was never officially documented by the state, in order to impart a familial legacy to her son...
African American mothers
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Author:Lane, CassandraSummary: - Author:Alexander, ElizabethSummary:
In 2020 after the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, Alexander turned a mother's eye to her sons' and students' generation, observing the race-based violence that they could not be shielded from...
- Author:Tubbs, Anna MalaikaSummary:
Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them. In her...
- Author:Nelson, AdibaSummary:
With a new baby with medical needs and a slew of hardships, Adiba Nelson set out on a reckoning that was just as generational as it was personal. Along the way, she never loses her heart or her humor.
