In-Store Book Signing: Power: The Rise of Black Women in America

Before  sea to shining sea. Before spacious skies were pierced by purple  mountains. Before the uniting of one nation. Black women learned to  rise. In POWER: THE RISE OF BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICA, award-winning  journalist and digital media executive Charity C. Elder posits that  there has never been a better time to be a Black woman in the United  States.

POWER is an incisive disquisition on Black  womanhood weaving theoretical frameworks of history and sociology with  poignant interviews, ethnographic observation, and anecdotes gleaned  from history, social media, pop culture, and the author’s lived  experiences.

Using data, the author substantiates the triumph of  Black women. Original analysis of eighty years of US census data,  prepared by the University of Minnesota and analyzed by Dr. Constance F.  Citro, documents the remarkable ascension of Black women since the  early twentieth century. An exclusive national survey conducted in  partnership with the Marist…