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Category Archives: Family
Dear Daddy: A Love Letter to Your Beloved South
July 15, 2020 Dear Daddy, Last night I dreamt of you for the first time since your death. I woke up with tears in my eyes. Although you have been dead for a little more than 38 years, in the … Continue reading
Posted in being a teenager, Education, Family, Fatherhood, Fathers, Growing Up, Lest We Forget
Tagged Benin & Togo, Cameroon, Civil War, Confederate memorials, Confederate monumnets, Confederate statues, Congo, discrimination, Ellis Island, Emmett Till, Four White Men Kidnap and Rape Black Girl in Tylertown MS, Ghana, NC, Nigeria, racial reckoning, Segregation, slave ships, Southern Bantu peoples, the South, Township of Bath, Virginia, white supremacy, WW I, WW II, Yeatesville
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Prison Walls v. Love — Review of “Memoirs of a Prison Lawyer/Prison Wife,” by Claudette Spencer-Nurse
Memoirs of a Prison Lawyer/Prison Wife, by Claudette Spencer-Nurse, is a love story. It is an improbable love story. It is a love story that has defied the odds. It is a love story for the ages. It is a … Continue reading
Posted in Amadou Diallo, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, crime, Family, Justice Chronicles, Life Sentences, Parole, parole board, police involved shooting, police-involved killing, race, Reentry, Relationships, remorse
Tagged Attica, Attica Correctional Facility, Beauty and the Beast, BlackLivesMatter, Claudette Spencer Nurse, Coalition for Parole Restoration (CPR), CPR, divorce, Elmira, Elmira Correctional Facility, Elmira Reformatory, Ernest Nurse, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Legal Aid Society of New York, life sentence, love, love at first sight, Memoirs of a Prison Lawyer/Prison Wife, prison marriage, Prisoners' Rights Project, Richard Langone, Santiago v. Miles, Temple Law School
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Fathers’ Day
Fathers’ Day is tomorrow. Nowhere near as many cards, gifts and flowers will go to fathers as Mothers’ Day . In fact, Fathers’ Day, after Mothers’ Day, is anticlimactic. Nonetheless, fathers are important in any equation when we talk about … Continue reading
Spring Cleaning and Discovering My Roots
Last night I stopped by my sister Jeanette’s place — she’s the eldest, I’m the second eldest — and helped with some Spring cleaning. We looked through a box, an old box, a box she probably hasn’t looked in for … Continue reading
