Eric Jerome Dickey Made Black Women Feel Seen
The best-selling author…created a world of fiction that understood and celebrated his most loyal readers.
—Fellow author Diane McKinney-Whetstone in The Atlantic
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Last night, I had the most esteemed pleasure of attending the celebration of the incomparable poet and my former English professor, Sonia Sanchez’s 90th birthday at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. And first of all, self preservation was in full effect!
I had the privilege of partnering with the first Black woman ever to be appointed to the Supreme Court to write her extraordinary and inspiring memoir. In this intimate account, Justice Jackson chronicles her family’s ascent from segregation to her historic confirmation within the span of one generation.