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African American
Point of View
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August 2008
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CONSTRUCTIVE REVENGE: THE JAMES MORTON WAY By Frederick A. Hurst |
BOBBY KNIGHT: FULL COURT GENIUS By Frederick A. Hurst (Reprinted from January 1, 2005) |
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He told me he never does interviews because in the end the real story is never told. And, after we got to know each other, I said, "Bobby, if people like you and me don’t tell our stories to somebody, the ‘real’ story will never be known." |
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Unless you’ve experienced it, you cannot imagine what it is like to wear the same pair of pants to school for an entire school year hoping each day that nobody will notice. And you can’t imagine what it is like to wear your shoes until the soles of your bare feet touch the ground separated only by the cardboard covering the worn out shoe bottoms. And, unless you’ve experienced it, you can’t imagine watching a father struggling to stay employed but failing, nonetheless, to overcome the inadequacies that leave his family without basic necessities and finally forcing the family onto the welfare roles. Read More . . . |
Sometimes we think we know so much, which is sometimes why we are surprised to discover how little we know. After authoring POV’s Sports Heroes, Where Are They Now? for almost two years, I was finally forced to face the fact that I had a writer’s obligation to find out who basketball icon Bobby Knight was, since every single past basketball player that I interviewed glorified his name. And the compliments that each heaped upon him made my ignorance that much more disturbing. Read More. . . |
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Black, Beautiful and Intelligent, Queen Tiye was an influential ruler of Ancient Egypt
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