Posts Tagged ‘African American history’
Things Sweet to Taste
Much to my regret, I never truly knew the woman who helped raise me
Read MoreInterstates
How My Italian-American husband ate his way into the good graces of my African-American family
Read MoreKu Klux Kounty
Plus, tall tales from Claude Monet and Betty MacDonald
Read MoreThe Firebrand and the First Lady
Read an excerpt from Patricia Bell-Scott’s book about Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray
Read MoreLiving Like White People
The disorientation of growing up privileged and black
Read MoreFor to Sound Folksy
What do we know about this odd, antiquated construction?
Read MoreThe Autobiography of Biography
In which I tell how I was drawn again and again to the lives of African-American figures, and found in them the story of our times
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