If youâre a gourmet gardener whoâd like to give some Asian vegetables space in your yard, check out the specialty seed catalogs for bok choy, pak choy, Chinese broccoli, Chinese cabbage (many kinds), Chinese mustard, daikon radish, garland chrysanthemum, tyfon and snow peas.
In general, do not use a comma before and or or in a series: The snow stalled cars, buses and trains. Use commas to separate elements in a series, but do not put a comma before the conjunction in a simple series: The flag is red, white and blue.
Yes, you need a comma before especially, which heads what some might call a nonrestrictive appositive of particularization. That is, as an appositive, especially the women renames the black community (in this case in a more particular way).