Best Books by Black Women
130+ Books by Black Women That Should Be Essential Reading For Everyone
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Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, tells the story of a world that isn't often explored: upper-crust Black Chicago, where her father was head of paediatrics at a hospital, her mother was a socialite, and most everyone's wealth originated from antebellum free blacks who made their fortunes in plantations.