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Tubbs’s book stands against the women’s erasure, a monument to their historical importance. As Malcolm X put it, ‘All our achievements are mom’s.’ The New Yorker’s “Briefly Noted” column

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This ambitious book reframes African American history, supplying the female Black experience as a much-needed perspective. The Washington Post

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Tubbs’s portrait is an intimate narrative that aims to link not only Little, King and Baldwin, but all Black mothers . . . the intersections she highlights are beautiful. The New York Times Book Review

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Anna Malaika Tubbs uncovers hidden complex­ities within black mother­hood that illuminate our understanding of the past while also shedd­ing light on the over­looked contributions of black women today. An eye-opening, engross­ing read! Brit Bennett, New York Times bestselling author of
The Vanishing Half and The Mothers

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The light Alberta, Louise and Berdis deserve is finally shining on them, not only as mothers, but as women whose lives and examples can stir up the gift in all of us. Brittany Packnett Cunningham,
host of Undistracted and founder of Love & Power

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An essential celebration of Black women, one that illuminates the history of racism and resist­ance in critical new ways. A timely and important book. Elizabeth Hinton, author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

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An intimate explication of motherhood as the shoulders upon which children stand. Julie Lythcott-Haims, New York Times bestselling author of
How to Raise an Adult and Real American