There’s No Place Like Home ~ An Essay by Dr. Carolyn Finney
I am African-American. Feels important that I say that up front. Born in New York city and raised by black parents on land belonging to a wealthy, Jewish family, I was “homeschooled” emotionally and spiritually on a diet of black power, black striving and black possibility. I often joke with people that I lived with Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali whose presence my father invoked on a regular basis. My parents, Henry and Rose, grew up in Floyd, Virginia – poor and black with a high school education. ...
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