Falcon Heavy, Dad, and the Kid
It was 3 AM on a clear, crisp October morning in 1957 when Dad gently shook me awake and said simply, “It’s time.”
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Roger Witherspoon
- Feb 4, 2016
- 4 min
Black History Lost and Found
On Feb. 1, the New York Times started a Black History Month series of photographs of black life in America, “Unpublished Black History."
Roger Witherspoon
- Jul 17, 2013
- 6 min
Daddy, Me, Trayvon and “The Talk”
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Art I’d never seen Mom cry before. Daddy had said “go over to the chair. We have to talk.” And...
Roger Witherspoon
- Apr 16, 2010
- 5 min
Hooks, Baker, the GOP And the Road Not Taken
By Roger Witherspoon It’s hard to make pancakes with your right arm broken and useless in a sling. It was 90 degrees and humid in Miami...
Roger Witherspoon
- Feb 5, 2010
- 6 min
Bread, Roses, Racism and Song
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article In the nation’s coffee houses where live folk music reigns and homage is paid to old...
Roger Witherspoon
- Oct 21, 2009
- 4 min
Dead Blacks, White Cops, and Political Cover
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article They buried Vionique Valnord last week. She was 33, had a five year old daughter, and...
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