{
  "id": 9149280,
  "title": "From slavery to today: The Black women who shaped America",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/from-slavery-to-today-the-black-women-who-shaped-america",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-22T14:06:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "France 24",
    "slug": "france-24",
    "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/arts24/20260922-from-slavery-to-today-the-black-women-who-shaped-america"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "\"If you don’t understand the history of Black women, you don’t understand the history of America.\" Those words from Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison open Sasha Bonét's debut memoir, \"The Waterbearers\". The New York writer traces three generations of Black women in her family: her grandmother Betty Jean, the daughter of formerly enslaved people in Louisiana who went on to raise eleven…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}