This title beautifully celebrates the strength and resilience of African American women of the past, charges those of influence to rebuild in this present age and challenges brown girls to invest for the future. It also encourages these women to embody the wealth penned on these pages in the form of empowering truth gained through experience and lifelong gleaning. Victoria Green offers

a beautiful and vivid link to phenomenal African American women of past generations, candid advice for living, and substance and style of profound prose, poetry, and intellectual discourse along with that...