The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

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Finalist, 2025 Frances Fuller Victor Award in General Nonfiction, Oregon Audiobook Awards Honorable Mention, 2024 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment. Calling themselves “The Sisterhood,” the group would get together once a month over the next two years, creating a vital space for Black women to discuss literature

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