

100/ The Story of Three Black Mothers: Louise Little, Berdis Baldwin and Albert King w/ Anna Malaika Tubbs
Feb 25, 2022
52:12
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."
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What we talked about:
- The lives of Berdis Baldwin, Louise Little and Alberta King and why their stories matter
- Anna becoming a mother while writing a book about black motherhood
- Their famous sons - James Baldwin, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr - eclipsing their own lives
- Contextualizing their lives an the long history of violence against black women
- The role of religion in their lives
Books Mentioned:
- Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
- We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood by Dani McClain
- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker
- The Mothers by Brit Bennett