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Marking a decade in America
According to Ellis Island records, my father arrived in the United States on November 1, 1923 from Hamilton Bermuda. He was 26 years old and single. A column that he published on December 16, 1933,...
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Black airmen, then and now
In the middle of this column, under the heading "The Goodwill Flight"Ebenezer talks about a goodwill flight to the Caribbean and South America that was undertaken by Dr. Albert Forsythe and C. Alfred...
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‘Emperor Jones,’‘Huck Finn’ and that ‘n’ word
Last week, I weighed in on the debate about the novel Huckleberry Finn in my colleague Cynthia Haven’s blog The Book Haven. There’s a current debate over a new edition of the novel in which the word...
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Adam Clayton Powell Jr. marries an actress
On March 15, 1933, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the assistant minister of Abyssinian Baptist Church (The church where I got married, by the way) wedded a "showgirl" named Isabel Washington. According to my...
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A Mother’s Day tribute
I queued this up a year ago just so I would remember to revisit it for Mother’s Day 2012. (Apparently, it went live several days ago.) My father never missed an opportunity to sing the praises of he...
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