Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-ValdezMontgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend intends to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she hopes to help women shape their destinies, to make their own choices for their lives and bodies. But when her first week on the job takes her along a dusty country road to a worn down one room cabin, Civil is shocked to learn that her new patients, Erica and

Coates delivers a stirring call to self-determination

✨ A perfect gift for readers who love inspiration

sorceress of side-eyes and critic of culture - gives you the permission you might need to be the troublemaker you are

intergenerational storytelling

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones

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cultivated revolution

This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn’t always see me

and use it for good

That is what it means to be a troublemaker

It's a love letter to Black women who dare to speak up

was so much more than an actor