Jennifer Baszile was born in southern California in 1969 and spent the bulk of her youth living on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir is the candid and deeply personal story of her California girlhood lived in the midst of tremendous change: integration.
As a member of the first generation of Americans born after the end of legal segregation, Baszile and her contemporaries spent their childhoods fulfilling the nation’s promise of equality. But along the way, Baszile lived in the painful space between hope and reality, w more...
