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Rest in Peace, Mildred Loving

Mildred Loving, the surviving half of the interracial couple whose challenge to laws banning interracial marriage led to the Supreme Court to put an end to that nonsense, died on Friday. Loving and her...

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Little bit o’ pressure

Almost two years ago now, I started working on a novel of historical fiction. I spent the first year caught up in “research rapture” to cop a phrase from writer/editor Janis Cooke Newman…that phase...

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So this was, ahem, unexpected

In March I went to DC on a research trip and spent hours at Cedar Hill, the home in Anacostia in which Frederick and Helen Douglass lived. Helen spent the last part of her life fighting to have the...

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So many authors, so little time

We’re about halfway through San Francisco’s annual “Litquake” festival and I am spoiled by choice. This is such a literary town; you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a memoirist. So when I took a...

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Watch Night 2008

I’m reading Giants, by John Stauffer – subtitled “The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.” It’s beautifully researched and written and, you know, right up my alley. With only 6...

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My Frederick Douglass photo in a textbook

I got a great surprise in the mail today – a new textbook from Enslow Publishing on Frederick Douglass, featuring a photo I took of his gravestone during one of my Rochester visits. (He’s buried in...

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If you think politics are disdainful now…

A couple of months ago my friend Maria of Sweet Thursday fame brought me a book she’d found at the Lafayette Library’s used bookstore. Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the...

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