'In Our Mothers' Gardens' Review: Creating Space for Black Women

‘In Our Mothers’ Gardens’ Review: Creating Space for Black Women
The Netflix documentary sets out to show how maternal lineages have shaped generations of Black women.
Shantrelle P. Lewis, the director of “In Our Mothers’ Gardens” on Netflix.Credit...Rog Walker/Netflix
By Natalia Winkelman
In Our Mothers' Gardens
Documentary
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In the meditative documentary “In Our Mothers’ Gardens” (streaming on Netflix), the stories could warm a room in any season. Opening with a quote from Alice Walker, whose book “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” inspired the film’s title, the documentary sets out to show how Black maternal lineages have shaped the idea of Black womanhood.

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