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		<title>A Mother&#8217;s Day tribute</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 12:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8216;If I were mayor of Harlem&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>&#8216;I have learned to be racial&#8217; and other observations after 11 years in America</title>
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		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a column my father wrote on the eve of the new year in 1934, he recalls seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time 11 years earlier. He arrived on Ellis Island aboard the SS Fort Victoria on Nov. 1, 1923 at age 26, 48 hours after leaving Bermuda, where he worked as [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=1026&#038;subd=elainecarolynray&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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		<title>That &#8216;threshold&#8217; business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So we married,&#8221; my father wrote in his column a couple of weeks after he said, &#8220;I do&#8217; to Lucille Manning, his first wife. In an April 29,1939 New York Age article describing the wedding, there was not a hint of sarcasm. But even as a newlywed, Ebenezer could not resist. &#8220;Irrespective of what one [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=2524&#038;subd=elainecarolynray&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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