Dawn Turner’s Three Girls From Bronzeville

or many of us, there comes a moment when we wonder just how we landed where we are. We may, which came out last September, isn’t a wistful, nostalgic walk through her past. Instead, it’s a revealing interrogation that challenges the status quo and forces us to reckon with privilege and our individual investments in respectability politics. She has ideas on how we can ensure all Black girls thrive and reach their full potential. But I read ultimately as an instruction manual on how to love each other through everything: crises, tragic moments, and all life’s other lows and highs.