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		<description><![CDATA[Last&#160; Thursday, I got a call from a fellow blogger, Valerie Bailey, who was doing research on a Ted Yates, a black newspaper columnist whose career overlapped with my dad&#8217;s. I told Bailey, whose fascinating video blog is febone1960.net, that the name was familiar, and that I would get back to her if I found [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=3400&#038;subd=elainecarolynray&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scanning Ebenezer&#8217;s columns on a sleepy Sunday afternoon, my heavy eyelids were brought to attention by this line at the bottom of a column dated Feb. 24, 1934. &#8220;News was received Friday last of the death of my sister, Maude Victoria, aged 25 years, at her home in Barbados, B.W.I. May the sod rest lightly [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=3372&#038;subd=elainecarolynray&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I weighed in on the debate about the novel Huckleberry Finn in my colleague Cynthia Haven&#8217;s blog The Book Haven. There&#8217;s a current debate over a new edition of the novel in which the word &#8220;nigger&#8221; is replaced by the word &#8220;slave.&#8221; While the intention is noble, I think it misses the point. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=489&#038;subd=elainecarolynray&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Balancing the city budget; the Episcopal Church;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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		<title>A West Indian federation?  &#8216;A plant of slow and tender growth&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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