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Guilty When Black is the poignant, gut-wrenching story of ayoung African American woman, Miashah Moses, who, through unrelenting mediaattention and a rush to judgment by the DA, was charged with second-degreemurder in the fiery deaths of her two small nieces, Noni (4) and Nylah (18months) when she fed them lunch and left for eight minutes to empty the trash.While she was gone, the faulty stove caught fire, a not uncommon occurrence inthe low-income apartments, according the electrical contractors. The book'sfour-part story offers a rare glimpse into the unique challenges faced byminority and marginalized women in Oklahoma, a state with the highest rate offemale incarceration in the nation. Miashah's plight is intertwined with vividstories of five incarcerated women, the rise of one judge and fall of another,and the landmark exoneration of three black men wrongfully sentenced for crimesthey did not commit. The non-fiction book is prefaced with a gripping accountof the Tulsa 1921 Race Massacre, the largest slaughter of African Americans inU.S. history that left the city's affluent Greenwood district, known as theBlack Wall Street, burned to the ground.