Diamond Doris

“Payne’s storytelling voice is easy and intimate. . . .You want to cheer for Payne. . . . She’s stolen yet another thing. Your heart.” — New York Times Soon to be a Major Motion Picture Growing up during the Depression in the segregated coal town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, Doris Payne was told her dreams were unattainable for poor black girls like her. Doris vowed to turn the tables after the owner of a jewelry store threw her out when a white customer arrived. Using her souther