Written for Wall Street Journal by Constance White
Terry McMillan Author of 10 novels, including ‘Waiting to Exhale,’ ‘How Stella Got Her Groove Back’ and more recently, ‘It’s Not All Downhill From Here’
“Bebe Moore Campbell’s ‘Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine.’ Bebe was only 5 years old when Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman in her family’s grocery store because he had whistled at her. Emmett became Armstrong Todd in Bebe’s 1992 novel. In her updated take, racism was still a thick rope that wrapped itself around multiple characters. It was unlike any first novel I’ve read in years.”…
