The Color of FamilyA tragedy upends a family's delicate balance in an emotional novel about secrets, guilt, friendship, race, and reconciliation by Jerry McGill, author of Bed Stuy: A Love Story. Who wants to believe their family could ever be broken? Devon and James Payne are brothers and rivals since childhood. But they share an affinity for sports that brings glory to their Connecticut town and promise for the future. Then they're in a car accident. Devon is

But Villarosa's article exposing that a Black woman with a college education is as likely to die or nearly die in childbirth as a white woman with an eighth grade education made racial disparities in health care impossible to ignore

to America's crisis of conscience

the girl's mother teaches her about the musicality of African

but one thing is certain: he wants more from the incredibly smart and sexy woman he hooked up with--even after he learns she's his new boss

like all the other women in the settlement

but now I'm coming for everything

so she knows what it means to be invisible

Goddess worship

it's up to her and her mother to earn enough for food and rent

when Adolf von Baeyer created a chemical blue dye

her sister

she had no idea she was about to make history