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They said it couldn’t be done. They said it shouldn’t be done. They called me a madman. Me! A madman! Well, I showed them madness. That’s right. I went ahead and did it. Don’t believe me? The blood’s still on my hands. Just look. As if reading eight zillion books a month wasn’t already putting [...]

“This is our story,” a friend declared in a recent email to me and  others. By “our history” she meant the history of African Americans living in northern cities throughout the US whose parents or grandparents had migrated from the South (which is to say the overwhelming majority of us). Her declaration was about Isabel [...]