The New York Age, July 22, 1933
The Scottsboro boys: ‘In as much as ye have done it unto one of these, ye have done it unto me.’
6 Jun
‘Straining at a gnat, swallowing a hippopotamus’
6 JunAhh, the pitfalls of hot type! Some of the lines in the first two paragraphs of the quote from the N. Y. Daily Mirror’s radio editor got a little scrambled. It probably should read:
“It is a sad fact that the world seems to have become acutely race conscious. Probably one of the most sensitive races is the colored, which have given the world a love song, a delightful sense of rhythm and some of its greatest artists.”
The New York Age, April 8, 1933
Jig-saw puzzles, the Home Relief Bureau and self-hating Negroes
6 Jun
The New York Post, April 1, 1933
Father Divine: ‘dwarfed impostor’
6 JunNot sure what the assault case was all about, but the commentary at the end about journalism and the “dwarfed impostor,” which I assume refers to Father Divine, is pretty funny, particularly given that by his own account my father was 5′ 4. According to Wikipedia, Divine was 5′ 2.
The New York Age, February 25, 1933
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Election days, then and now
Looking for something fresh to write about on Election Day, I searched my father’s columns for wisdom from the past. A footnote in a column published in the New York Age on November 3, 1934, implored readers to elect “Mrs. Eunice Carter” to the New York State Assembly. The name had a familiar ring. Five […]
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‘Was silence not an option?’
My barber called Kamala Harris a “ho.” The shop I go to is not the stuff of Black culture lore. It’s not a boisterous place. It doesn’t reek with toxic masculinity. It’s a nice, quiet, family friendly kind of enterprise. The worst I have been subjected to in the nearly three years I’ve gone there […]
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Standing on the shoulders of Black Legends
On Saturday, Feb. 17, I will be among several individuals inducted into the 2024 Class of the Black Legends of Silicon Valley. This is quite an honor. Previous recipients in the News and Documentary category in which I am being honored include journalists with stellar credentials. Loretta Green, an award-winning reporter for several local papers […]
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‘The Donna Collection’
My short story, “The Donna Collection” is included in the new anthology 166 Palms 2020. Buy the anthology on Amazon.
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Elaine Ray wins 2016 Gival Press Short Story Award
Blown away and humbled. The first piece of fiction I’ve ever gotten published wins an award. The story is published here.
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