
The Gospel of Malcolm X
A Black Matriarch: Remembering Frances Summers
<b>“A Black Matriarch: Remembering Frances Summers”</b><br /><br />This episode is a personal one.I talk about my grandmother, Frances Summers, a Black woman who grew up in the brutally racist Jim Crow South before eventually escaping to Baltimore to build a better life and start a family. A decent family with good people. She would often talk about meeting my grandfather and how, from that point forward, life became good to her.But this episode is bigger than one person.It’s about a generation of Black women who survived segregation, racism, poverty, and disenfranchisement while still findin...






