This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

Watkins introduces you to Down Bottom, the storied community of East Baltimore that holds a mirror to America’s poor black neighborhoods.

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

As the last generation of blacks born into slavery were reaching maturity, a small group of industrious and tenacious men and women broke new ground to attain great financial success.