Mother of stars Beyoncé and Solange grew up poor in Galveston and recently learned that her parents were from a notorious Louisiana island.

The woman who raised Beyoncé has written a deeply empathetic memoir on family cycles and the power of self actualization.

Tina Knowles shares how a missed mammogram may have led to a delayed detection of breast cancer, and opens up about the support from her daughters, Beyoncé and Solange, niece Angie Beyincé, and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland.