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This Women’s History Month we’re celebrating strong women with these books that feature influential leaders in the arts, the workplace, in civil rights, and more. Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop By Danyel Smith American pop music is arguably this country’s greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a shining thread of Black women geniuses stretching back to the country’s founding. This is their surprising, heartbreaking, soaring story—from “one of the generation’s greatest, most insightful, most nuanced writers in pop culture” (Shea Serrano) “This book is revelatory about…