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Kristl Tyler
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in Bryan, Texas, The United States
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Michelle Alexander, Isabel Wilkerson, Toni Morrison -- so many others
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February 2012
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The Wheat Money
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2012
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4 editions
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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 »
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 »
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“If you want to, and you don’t, then that’s on you.”
― The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
― The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
“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.”
― The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
― The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
