Angela Jackson’s Where I Must Go is today’s Featured Book of Color, Pick of the Day. Set in a world of privilege and privation during the American civil rights movement comes Magdalena Grace’s story. The setting changes from the racially exclusive atmosphere of Eden University to the black neighborhoods of a Midwestern City to ancestral Mississippi. Magdalena encounters a wide range of characters of genders, ages, and races, with separate backgrounds. They all come to rely on one another to better understand the turbulent times the live in and the history they are currently making.
Angela Jackson is the author of the 1993 Chicago Sun-Times Book of the Year Award in Poetry and the 1994 Carl Sandberg Award for Poetry for Dark Legs and Silk Kisses: The Beatitudes of the Spinners.
Jeff is the author of “Forever My Lady” and the founder of GumboWriters.com.