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Now hear this! Hidden Maryland and Five for Freedom are both available as audiobooks.  I  cordially invite you to visit my Audible Author Page by clicking here. For Hidden Maryland:…

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No place for old men

The elderly Black gentleman in a suit jacket, high neck collar and overcoat approached the front steps to the Tastee Diner in downtown Silver Spring the other Wednesday afternoon, on…

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Osborne Anderson was a dad!

Osborne Perry Anderson, the sole survivor who wrote the only insider account of John Brown’s Oct. 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry — to seize the federal arsenal and incite a…

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Campus Silos Then and Now

I recently learned that 538 W. 114th Street in Morningside Heights was to become The Black Residential Brownstone for Columbia College. The story, in the Columbia Spectator, made no mention…

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