Sublime

In Sunflower County, where Hamer had been sterilized, at least 60 percent of the Black women experienced forced sterilizations following pregnancy.72 Deemed “unfit” to reproduce by white physicians and other state officials, Black women who entered hospitals for routine procedures ran the risk of

was the only Black child with a Black doll,” Hamer recalled. “This gift

In Savannah, she recommended that members of the writing workshop eat at the Grey Market, where she worked part-time. It is a New York bodega-inspired offshoot of the Grey, Mashama Bailey’s fine-dining Savannah restaurant. Bailey, a Black woman who moved between Georgia and New York throughout her childhood, learned to cook first from the women in

discrimination.