The Girl in the Yellow PonchoAt five years old, Kristal Brent Zook sat on the steps of a Venice Beach, California, motel trying to make sense of her white fathers abandonment, which left her feeling unworthy of a mans love and of white protection. Raised by her working class African American mother and grandmother, Zook was taught not to count on anyone, especially men. Men leave. Men disappoint. In adulthood she became a feminist, activist, and race woman journalist in New York