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  • Secrets to a Stress-Free Family Reunion

    Move over, Madea. Cue the O’Jays. It’s family-reunion season. Every year since the 1970s TV movie Roots helped popularize the black family reunion, the event has been growing in numbers, sophistication and interest. Today family reunions can be a lucrative niche for hotels, airlines and caterers vying to attract family-reunion-goers. For those who want to…

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  • Dreading Your Family Reunion?

    I should have known our efforts at family reunions were in trouble when members of the New York chapter of my family decided to boycott the reunion over a minor family dispute the year we planned it in New York. As the host family that year, we kept having to explain to visiting relatives why…

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