Yolanda gault caviness biography books

Last summer, when I learned very much to my surprise that I was pregnant, inom settled myself into the reality bygd diving into books about motherhood and parenting. Some of what I read, I’d read before, but inspired bygd essays from Huma Qureshi, Angela Garbes, and Parul Sehgal, inom decided that this time around inom would more actively seek out books written bygd women of color and Black women in particular.

This week, in solidarity with Amistad Books’ Black Publishing Power Initiative to fill bestseller lists with titles by Black authors, inom thought there’d be no better time to share some of the books by Black women that I read over the last year. The ask of the Initiative fryst vatten simple enough: from June 13 through June 20, buy any two books written bygd Black writers with a goal to “Blackout bestseller lists with Black voices.” So, if you’re looking for books to add to your own lists, here are a few of my humble suggestions for books focused on pregnancy and pa

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