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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 06:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father plagiarized himself frequently, most notably in his Thanksgiving columns. In 1934, 1936 and 1938, he wrote about the Pilgrim fathers, who in 1623 faced &#8220;their second winter of hunger, cold and peril&#8221; until, after a day of prayer, sighted &#8220;a ship loaded with friends and supplies.&#8221; He ended every one of these columns [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=3841&#038;subd=elainecarolynray&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m re-posting an entry I originally published in February of 2011, which seems like ages ago. Last Tuesday, We The People overcame voter suppression campaigns, lies, bungled debates and obscene amounts of campaign spending to reelect President Barack Obama and to put down efforts to make him a one-term president. Now that the Florida vote [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=1628&#038;subd=elainecarolynray&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Barbados, with love</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 11:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS, May 24, 2012 — Zuri, my sister-in-law Tracy and I are in Barbados for a little R&#38;R after a whirlwind Spelman Commencement Weekend. It also happens to be my father&#8217;s birthday. He would be 115. In a column he published shortly after his 43rd birthday  in 1940, he uses the occasion to commemorate [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=3440&#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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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<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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		<title>Should Negroes be thankful?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1934, the United States was still in the throes of the Great Depression. The Scottsboro Boys had been locked up for more than three years. Lynchings were rampant, and many states still denied black folks the right to vote. Ebenezer was not pleased. &#8220;Three hundred and 11 years ago, a disconsolate group of humans [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=1004&#038;subd=elainecarolynray&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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