As I mentioned in my previous blog, mom used to tell me stories about how segregated her integrated high school was…Remember she was born and raised “Up North” where they didn’t have mandated segregation. However the black students couldn’t swim in the Olympic sized pool because it took too much time to drain and refill [...]

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I am the great grand daughter of a slave: Fannie Revere. One of her sons (David) was my maternal grand father. He fled the South and certain death at the hands of a lynch mob in the early decade of the Twentieth Century, because he stood up to a belligerent white male. He settled in [...]

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I know it’s been a long lapse since I last wrote. I have been thinking of all kinds of stuff to blog about but never making the effort to sit down and write. My BFF Carla shook me out of my reverie: I better not see the picture of that damned cat first thing (from [...]

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