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Category: Biography and Memoir
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Since Wednesday night’s Pennsylvania Democratic Presidential Debates, Beacon author Bill Ayers has been in the news for his connection to Barack Obama, after George Stephanopoulos pressed Sen. Obama to discuss his association with Ayers. Ayers is a widely respected and admired writer, activist, and professor of education, whose opposition to the war in Vietnam led…
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by Martin Moran I write from the edge of Washington, DC, on a freezing day. I’m here performing a one-man play, The Tricky Part, which was developed from my memoir of the same title. There’s an Obama event going on at a Virginia high school some blocks from here. A massive motorcade — cycles, black…
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by Laila Halaby During graduate school, I worked at the library with an African American girl named Carmon. One quiet Saturday morning, she asked if I would mind trimming her hair. Carmon had handfuls of thin braids that she wanted layered in the back so there would be a cascading effect. We sat outside the…
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by David Gessner I think it’s funny how often people use place as a metaphor for their state of being. "I’m not quite there yet." "I’m getting there." "I’m feeling unsettled." Everyone wants to get there and be there but even the most superficial survey of the animal world will tell you that there’s no…
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