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Kristl Tyler

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Kristl Tyler was born in the Summer of 1968 just two days after Robert Kennedy's assassination. Two short months had passed since April, when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and cities like Chicago and Washington D.C. exploded in protest.

When Kristl was four years old, the Supreme Court declared that busing would have to be used to integrate her town's schools. By that time, almost two decades had passed since the Supreme Court's declaration that segregated schools were unconstitutional, yet most of the nation's schools, both within the South and outside of it, remained segregated.

​Her parents had attended desegregated colleges in Washington and California. So while other white parents frantically scraped together funds to put thei
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I am so sorry. I'm sorry you didn't receive the book as you should have and I am sorry you wrote me 5 months ago and I didn't see it until …more
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The Wheat Money

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Is it time for a new Nicodemus?

When slavery ended in 1865, many blacks gathered up their limited belongings and headed north and west as pioneers. All-black towns sprung up all over the place. The most famous of these towns was Nicodemus, Kansas.

In my book, The Wheat Money, I suggest that the failure of Nicodemus was not an accident. Whites simply did not want black towns to thrive. The reasoning was simple, if black towns were Read more of this blog post »
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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

Jeff Hobbs
“If you want to, and you don’t, then that’s on you.”
Jeff Hobbs, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

Jeff Hobbs
“Raquel’s mother had driven her fiercely to do well in school, such that high academic prowess had been the only option. Others had come upon money by luck, or had relatives acting as patrons. Rob had had none of those things. All he’d had was a home, and a harried home at that, paired with his own drive. What he’d achieved, he’d achieved almost exclusively on his own.”
Jeff Hobbs, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

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