words Kam Williams
Jeffrey Wright was born on December 7, 1965 in Washington, DC where he was raised by his mother, an attorney, with the help of her sister, a nurse, following the untimely death of his father. At Amherst College, Wright discovered his love for the stage and later earned a scholarship to NYU's prestigious film school, but dropped out after only two months to pursue a professional acting career.
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words Kam Williams
If you were descend- ed from slaves, would you want to trace your ancestral roots back to the very soil where your forefathers had toiled for generations? And if you did, how do you think you'd feel if you not only found the plantation but the kin of the white slave owners still living there? This was precisely the project undertaken by David Wilson, a 28 year-old journalist.
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words Kam Williams
Have you ever visited the website Hot Ghetto Mess? It's a site dedicated to black bad taste which posts hilarious photos and videos of girls and guys gone ghetto. Now Cora Daniels has written a book about the troubling phenomenon in which she bemoans the fact that ghetto style is no longer limited to folks living in the slums.
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