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| Daughter |
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| by Asha Bandele |
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| Miriam was raised by an overprotective mother, and consequently she raised her own daughter, Aya, with too much strictness and not much love. Aya's father, Bird, was a returned Vietnam vet who was harassed and finally shot by the police for... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 2005 |
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| The Prisoner's Wife |
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| by Asha Bandele |
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| As a favor for a friend, a bright and talented young woman volunteered to read her poetry to a group of prisoners during a Black History Month program. It was an encounter that would alter her life forever, because it was there, in the... Read More |
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| Publication Date: August 2000 |
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