Gather Together in My Name Jazz color and class that spans

color and class that spans three generations of Black women in a fading beach town

light and dark

Hell is the same as any hood and certainly the Brooklyn hood she grew up in

the audience shouts insults and pornographic obscenities

entwining the personal with the political

Gather Together in My Name Jazz color and class that spansIn this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity. "A curiously heartening story in which decency, honor, truth, love do exist, imperfectly, fractionally and flickeringly, not in some Platonic realm of the ideal, but in the flawed lives of real men and women." The Washington Post Gather Together in My Name continues