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41) Harlem
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"Harlem, 1931. In the heart of the Great Depression, invention is the mother of necessity to make ends meet. Stéphanie St. Clair, known as 'Queenie', had already understood this when she landed in New York almost twenty years before. Inventiveness when you are a woman and you are black is much more than a necessity. It's a question of survival. In a few years, this young immigrant West Indian servant freed herself from the weight of ancestral servitude....
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A look at the life of anti-enslavement activist, publisher, educator, social justice pioneer, and lawyer Mary Ann Shadd, who was the first Black woman to publish a newspaper in Canada, and who fought for Black women's rights as well as the right for Black children to be educated.
43) Mary Ann Shadd
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A look at the life of educator, writer, publisher, and lawyer Mary Ann Shadd, who was the first Black woman to publish a newspaper in Canada, and who fought for Black women's rights as well as the right for Black children to be educated.
44) Nobody's magic
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Suzette, Maple and Agnes, three Black women with albinism, call Shreveport, Louisiana home. At the bustling crossroads of the American South and Southwest, these three women find themselves at the crossroads of their own lives. This novel, told in three parts, is a searing meditation on grief, female strength, and self-discovery set against a backdrop of complicated social and racial histories. Among the yearning and loss, each of these women may...
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