Interview with Dani McClain About Black Motherhood | Box of delight | Scoop.it
Why journalist Dani McClain wrote a book about the politics of black motherhood—and what it means to both raise your own children and connect with the needs of other families.
Interview by Anna Holmes
Collages by Johanna Goodman

IN JULY 2016, reporter Dani McClain watched as the Mothers of the Movement—black women who have lost children to gun violence—took the stage at the Democratic National Convention to support candidate Hillary Clinton.

Eight months pregnant at the time, McClain was inspired to begin writing a book about the politics of black mothering and the hard work that black