In Sister Citizen,  Melissa V. Harris-Perry explores how African American women understand themselves as citizens and what they expect from political organizing.

Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known about his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely independent woman who raised him, the person he credits for, as he says, “what is best in me.” Janny Scott’s,  A Singular Woman challenges the assumption of what it means to be a good mother.