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Billie Holiday performing at the Club Downbeat in New York City, February 1947.
As a child, one book in our Afrocentric family library cast a particular magnetism upon me. It was
A Zora Neale Hurston Reader, edited by Alice Walker; the 1979 Feminist Press edition with the wraparound cover. On the front stood Hurston, rocking a severe dark coat, a pink beret upon which a floating feather was mysteriously pinned, and a broad smile underneath the first half of the title, ....

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