Alice Randall | Alice Randall
Mar.06.2012
Black history is not just politics and arts and athletics -- it is also sweet potatoes and peanuts. It's taste and bellies and bodies. It's all the recipes for survival that appear in cookbooks written by Black American authors.
My daughter and I share a cookbook collection that includes over 1,000...
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May.07.2011
I know what it is for Mother's Day to be hard. When your Mama's broke, and I don't mean, when your Mama has no money, I mean when your mother has a heart so hurting she can't love herself, she can't love her child, she can't even like being black or stand being a woman, the second Sunday in...
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May.07.2011
We have a table of family pictures full of Randalls, Ewings and Steeles and Makiharas, and lots of photos of Caroline. The table is especially important to me because it helps define for us who is family. With us it doesn't all have to do with blood or marriage or legal adoptions: Mimi...
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Mar.01.2011
In recognition of Black History Month, it's been my pleasure to solicit articles for AOL's Black Voices and for Red Room from authors, each of whom has a unique and important take on the celebration. From actor and author Michael Boatman's witty and wise take on black stereotypes to April Sinclair'...
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