“So much of Black history is focused on exceptional people,” Greenidge said in a video interview earlier this month. She became the model for Libertie, the kind of historical figure who is rarely celebrated: someone who simply wants to survive and thrive, not to be the first or the only one of anything. As she researched the family, she found herself drawn to the doctor’s wayward daughter, Anna. Greenidge based her book partly on Susan Smith McKinney Steward, who in the 1870s was the first Black woman to become a doctor in New York state. Pakistan's publishing industry, battered by coronavirus lockdown, charts a new course for a post-pandemic future Spike Lee becomes the first Black man to head Cannes jury a look at his trailblazing career, rage and activism-infused cinema
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