Black Women for Beginners

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Chronicles the trials and triumphs of black woemn from antiquity to the present, reflecting with wit and humour the challenges they have faced and the fortitude and strength that have sustained them and have patterned history with a diversity of excellence. As warriors, healers, teachers, mothers, queens and liberators on all seven continents, black women have had an underappreciated impact on issues from food to fashion and politics to poetry.