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Happy Birthday, Ebenezer
My father would be 117 years old today. Eighty years ago his birthday wish was for a typewriter with the same configuration of keys as a Linotype machine. I wonder what he would think of our writing...
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It happens here, and now
From his columns, I know my father as someone who believed America thought too much of itself when it came to racial justice. He often used his writing to remind readers that while the United States...
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Happy 120th birthday
May 24 would have been my father’s 120th birthday. I don’t know what would resonate with him today, but back in the 1930s, when he was in his mid-to-late 30s, he was given to quoting Henry Wadsworth...
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It was the living monuments to the freedom struggle, the foot soldiers who were and still are on the front lines, that I will remember the most.
View ArticleHarriet Tubman at the Crossing
Artist Cheryl Derricotte created an eight-foot, larger-than-life likeness of Harriett Tubman, who was five-feet tall. The project was a collaboration of the the City of Milbrae, San Mateo County NAACP,...
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