The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters tote bags The first Black woman to

The first Black woman to hold this position at a preeminent Negro magazine

here is a poignant picture book about how family and community help shape the wonderful people our children become

Benbow writes powerfully about experiences at the heart of her Black womanhood

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The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters tote bags The first Black woman toOne of NPRs Nonfiction Books We Love from 2025 One of Kirkuss Best Nonfiction Books of 2025 A powerful new voice, telling the American story through three generations of Black mothers. "This searing, poetic memoir covers generations of powerful Black women who raise their children singly and transmit strength by showing up. . . . Bont writes her own mothering story with brute honesty." NPR "[A] profound story about all Black women, and about the