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Yale Grad: My Classmates Are Dying
For some time now, below the surface of my conscious mind, I’ve been lamenting the plight of us black men who attended Yale in the 1960s. Too many of us seem to be dying way before our time. My concern has been germinating for some 15 years, and my buddy Charles S. Finch — physician,…
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Forgive Me Father, For I Have Sinned
Those who know my politics, such as they are for a journalist who’s spent a working life concealing such things, might be surprised at my inner closeness to the old beliefs and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church. Let’s establish, first of all, that I am no longer a practicing Catholic. I was at a…