'You cannot hold back history for a cotillion'
In 1964, Pearl Cleage was a playwriting student at Howard University and a self-professed radical bohemian. “We were always marching on somebody,” she says with a laugh. When she started …
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The Nacirema Society
Every year since Emancipation, the Nacirema Society of Montgomery, Alabama introduces six elegant African-American debutants to a world of wealth, privilege and social responsibility. This year, at its 100th anniversary, …
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