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Roger Witherspoon
Feb 18, 20184 min read
Falcon Heavy, Dad, and the Kid
It was 3 AM on a clear, crisp October morning in 1957 when Dad gently shook me awake and said simply, “It’s time.”
Roger Witherspoon
Feb 4, 20164 min read
Black History Lost and Found
On Feb. 1, the New York Times started a Black History Month series of photographs of black life in America, “Unpublished Black History."
Roger Witherspoon
Jul 17, 20136 min read
Daddy, Me, Trayvon and “The Talk”
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Art I’d never seen Mom cry before. Daddy had said “go over to the chair. We have to talk.” And...
Roger Witherspoon
Apr 16, 20105 min read
Hooks, Baker, the GOP And the Road Not Taken
By Roger Witherspoon It’s hard to make pancakes with your right arm broken and useless in a sling. It was 90 degrees and humid in Miami...
Roger Witherspoon
Feb 5, 20106 min read
Bread, Roses, Racism and Song
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article In the nation’s coffee houses where live folk music reigns and homage is paid to old...
Roger Witherspoon
Oct 21, 20094 min read
Dead Blacks, White Cops, and Political Cover
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article They buried Vionique Valnord last week. She was 33, had a five year old daughter, and...
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