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About Uncle Toms
I was at the family home, on 92nd.ย I was ranting and raving, calling certain black leaders “Uncle Toms.”ย My dad, who was just a plain working-class carpenter, got angry and said, “Boy, what the HELL ...
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Talking about the Green Book
Back in the day, black entertainers could not stay in hotels when they came to Chicago to perform.ย At our family home at 9201 S. Perry, once Dick Gregory rang the bell.ย WOW!!ย I happened to ...
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The Camp For Underprivileged Children
When I was young, a group of us from my nearly all-Black neighborhood were enrolled in a summer camp for city children to expose us to the soothing wonders of the great outdoors. The camp was ...
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Beyond A Boundary
On a job in an upscale Baltimore assisted-living facility that I worked at for far too long, going to work meant dealing with a running quasi-racial tension where lines were sharply drawn and people adhered to ...
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Ghana vibes: first trip to Accra
My preparation began before even landing in Accra it would seem. It was interesting as I went via Namibia Air and stopped in Windhoek and Lagos before reaching my destination. In Johannesburg the Ghanaians on the ...
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The Ex-Panther
When I lived in Baltimore and went to events sponsored by the anarchist bookstore, often Iโd notice the presence of one or two ex-Panthers, stray corks bobbing in an ocean of youthful whiteness. They stayed to ...
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#NYCStripperStrike: Race, Class and Women’s Work
โHoney, I guess you can sum up this business in one sentence,โ stripper Bobbie Bruce told reporter Jack Griffin at Minskyโs Rialto Theater, a hub of early-1950s Chicago burlesque. โYou grab as much sex as the ...
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Incident at Waffle House
On July 4th, I went to a local Waffle House with a Black friend.ย ย ย Our usual Waffle House that we hit up on University Drive was packed solid so we drove to one in Five Points, a ...
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Conversations with โThe Enemyโ
Last year on my then-job, work was slow. A late middle-aged RN supervisor who worked in a different wing came in to file papers. We exchanged superficial pleasantries, the mask everyone wears in everyday life. And ...
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Scottsboro
Weโre driving down Route 72 Saturday morning from Huntsville to Scottsboro, a small blue collar city of fourteen thousand that the Tennessee wraps around like a fat brown snake before uncoiling down river. Scottsboro, that Alabama ...
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