“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to that sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is [...]
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Part of repairing and recapturing the past is first insisting that it exists. So much of what we know, or think we know, is maybe not wrong so much as it is part of that oft told single story. Perhaps, through photos and memories, another part of the story can be told. Disney, in [...]
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I mentioned some time back that I was going to open up my “book writing and research” site but I don’t think I ever gave the address. Anyway it’s called The Book of Louis and while it’s still a bit scattered, it is open. I’ll pull it all together soon.
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