A book review of Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women’s Lives, edited by Patricia Bell-Scott with Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Henry Holt, 1998, 231 pages, $22.
Homesteaders in two East New York buildings have staved off the elements, drug dealers and hopelessness for 10 years. Now, the city wants them out–though no one is sure why.
