The Story of Three Black Mothers: Louise Little, Berdis Baldwin and Albert King w/ Anna Malaika Tubbs (E100)

This is a conversation with Anna Malaika Tubbs, author of the book "The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation."What we talked about:The lives of Berdis Baldwin, Louise Little and Alberta King and why their stories matterAnna becoming a mother while writing a book about black motherhoodTheir famous sons - James Baldwin, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr - eclipsing their own livesContextualizing their lives an the long history of violence against black womenThe role of religion in their livesBooks Mentioned:Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 by Evelyn Brooks HigginbothamWe Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood by Dani McClainIn Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice WalkerThe Mothers by Brit Bennett