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		<title>Making it right: The Scottsboro Boys and the Central Park Five</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley signed legislation that paves the way for posthumous pardons of the Scottsboro Boys, nine black teenagers falsely accused in 1931 of raping two white women. For nearly a decade, my father used his New York Age column to remind his readers of what he called a travesty of justice. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=3998&#038;subd=elainecarolynray&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 06:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>A Mother&#8217;s Day tribute</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 12:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I queued this up a year ago just so I would remember to revisit it for Mother&#8217;s Day 2012. (Apparently, it went live several days ago.) My father never missed an opportunity to sing the praises of he mother, Malvina. It&#8217;s clear my grandmother was God-loving and generous to a fault. I wish I had [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=338&#038;subd=elainecarolynray&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marian Anderson&#8217;s Easter Sunday triumph</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers of this blog know that the legacy of singer Marian Anderson looms large in my consciousness. My mother held her up as a hero. My sister was named for her. My father, a contemporary, was apparently smitten with her. One of the first assignments as an editorial writer for the Boston Globe was [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=3388&#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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