Tag Archives: African-American

A historical memoir of home: Sugar Hill, Where the Sun Rose Over Harlem

Posted on March 5, 2012 by moonbridgebooks

I‘ve just read a wonderful historical memoir of growing up in 1950s Harlem by Terry Baker Mulligan, known as Jean when she was little. I knew almost nothing about Harlem except it was a dangerous place. And that is why … Continue reading →

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Troy Davis, Picking Cotton, and memoir writing

Posted on September 22, 2011 by moonbridgebooks

Troy Davis was executed last night based on eye witness accounts of him murdering an off-duty policeman working as an unarmed security guard. Officer Mark MacPhail was shot to death protecting a homeless man, leaving behind a wife and two … Continue reading →

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Black History Month and The Warmth of Other Suns

Posted on February 23, 2011 by moonbridgebooks

February happens to be Black History Month, and I happened to read a little book called Suitcase Full of Dreams, a memoir of a girl growing up in the 1940s-50s deep in Jim Crow South—Mobile, Alabama. Author Hoy Kersh tells … Continue reading →

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