"The untold story of the woman whose music and afro inspired a generation, whose voice provided a soundtrack for the unfolding civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s"--

Born into a poor family in rural Jamaica to a teenage mother and an infamous father, Odetta has had a life that is nothing short of a miracle. She lost her father when she was six to criminality in his bid to escape the authorities. She did not graduate from high school, was a college dropout who was pregnant twice by age 17, once from sexual abuse resulting in an abortion that she thought left her sterile. Despite her many life lessons, by age 25,...