from The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Ailey's mother
Readers picture Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as Belle Driskell Garfield in The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. Other fancast picks include Taraji P. Henson, Viola Davis and Danielle Brooks.
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How readers say the book describes them.

Ailey Pearl Garfield
KiKi Layne

Uncle Root
Forest Whitaker

Samuel Pinchard
Ben Foster

Lydia
Zazie Beetz

Micco
Martin Sensmeier

Geoff Garfield
Sterling K. Brown