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                                        THE EDUCATION OF A WHITE BOY

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My book is part autobiography, part biographies of the great figures in African American History and Literature, and part meditations on other subjects. Of course I would prefer that people bought the book, but, in this day and age of free content, that is like asking a hog farmer to purchase his bacon at the supermarket.  Therefore below are selected segments posted on my Word Press blog.

How I learned about the Blues on the streets and bars in Trenton...

How I learned from Richard Wright that all it takes to reach a goal is "the imagination and the will to do so..."

How I learned that Malcolm X and this white boy share a common passion -- a great love of books...

How I learned about Martin Luther King and then wrote my findings in Three Acts...

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How I learned from James Baldwin these words to live by: "I want to be an honest man and a good writer..."

How I learned to move past radical politics to become a well-read cosmopolitan man in Harvard Square...

How I learned about the basics of human reality by hitchhiking 18,000 miles around the United States...

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