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Ernest J. Gaines: A Great American Author Pays It Forward to a New Generation of Black Writers
Ernest J. Gaines was born in 1933 to a family of sharecroppers at River Lake Plantation in Oscar, La. They lived in the workers quarters on a dirt road lined on both sides with two-room cabins built by their slave ancestors. There was no running water or inside toilet, no electricity. Five months of the…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
