Tag: African American
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Protected: Of Sports Camps, “Beloved” and Fears …
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Of Alice Miller, Amy Chua, and Parenting as a Way of Growth and Transformation…
A beneficiary of the Civil Rights Era, I entered integration in third grade carrying with me the missive delivered to many middle-class African-American children around the country: “Integration [of schools] offers an opportunity to work even harder. You may sit next to white students, but you will need to prove yourself. You will need to…
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What I’m Reading…
Though I write literary women’s fiction focused on African American women and men–mainly wives and husbands–I love to read historical fiction set in the Victorian era of England and Europe. Also men were men, and women were women. And like us today, they were flawed. It was okay to be married back then. No one…
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What I’m Reading…
Though I write literary women’s fiction focused on African American women and men–mainly wives and husbands–I love to read historical fiction set in the Victorian era of England and Europe. Also men were men, and women were women. And like us today, they were flawed. It was okay to be married back then. No one…
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Radio Show | The Soul of a Man: Maurice Gray, Jr. and Brian Ganges
Authors Maurice Gray Jr. and Brian Ganges will join me in discussing their works, “Long Term” (Maurice Gray Jr.) and “Manning Up With God” (Brian Ganges) in the anthology, The Soul of a Man, published by Peace in the Storm Press and due for release in June 2009. Maurice is the author of: To Whom…