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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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		<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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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 11:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On his 36th birthday, my father marked the occasion with a column that riffed on the Royal Family and more.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ebenezerray.com&#038;blog=13922120&#038;post=355&#038;subd=elainecarolynray&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adam Clayton Powell Jr. marries an actress</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 15, 1933, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the assistant minister of Abyssinian Baptist Church (The church where I got married, by the way) wedded  a "showgirl" named Isabel Washington.

According to my former Boston Globe colleague and Powell biographer Wil Haygood, the relationship caused a stir. "The older deacons recoiled, as did his father. Showgirls stayed out late, danced with gangsters, drank gin. Adam Junior knew better. There were veiled threats that his father would not give him money."

In  my dad's  "Xcuse Me" column published three days after the wedding, you have to get to the penultimate paragraph before he even mentions the names "Adam" and "Is," but it is clear before then who the column is about.
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		<title>100 years after the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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		<title>Discrimination or not?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine Ray</dc:creator>
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