Tag Archives: African-American

Dream of the Water Children – a memoir of half worlds and unpleasant history

Posted on July 21, 2019 by moonbridgebooks

Fredrick Kakinami Cloyd is Black-Japanese, but actually he is Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and European from his mother’s side and black and Cherokee on his dad’s. He is Amerasian, a term Pearl Buck coined as she advocated for the many abandoned … Continue reading →

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Learning empathy through stories

Posted on September 24, 2017 by moonbridgebooks

St. Louis is boiling over with anger again. After Ferguson and Michael Brown, there is Jason Stockley and Anthony Lamar Smith. Or rather, Anthony Smith was . . . Our black people here–and all across the nation–are fed up and … Continue reading →

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Media intelligence and frustrated story lines

Posted on July 10, 2016 by moonbridgebooks

What in the world is going on? Last week saw terrible tragedies in the US related to race relations. Police quick with their guns, fed-up black men using their guns to take revenge on anyone who looked like their “enemy.” Too bad about collateral damage. … Continue reading →

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