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1619 – 400 Years of Inequality

September 16, 2019 By dionneford Leave a Comment

In a few weeks, I'll submit my memoir Finding Josephine to my editor - the most thrilling, rewarding and terrifying work I've ever done in my life.  To keep me company during this final stretch and my anxiety at bay, I've been doing a lot of reading including a steady diet of The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: African American History, Ancestry, family history, genealogy, slavery, writing Tagged With: 1619, 400YearsofInequality, Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine

Slavery’s Descendants

December 26, 2018 By dionneford 2 Comments

Along this journey of digging up my family's history, I met many other descendants of slavery including members of the national organization Coming to the Table. I was honored to be asked to help edit an anthology of some of the members' stories. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: African American History, Ancestry, anthology, family history, genealogy, Multiracial families, slavery, Uncategorized, writing Tagged With: Anthology, Rutgers Press, slavery, Slavery's Descendants, writing

Treasure Chest Thursday: The MacDowell Colony

February 16, 2017 By dionneford 2 Comments

My first real writing job out of college was a part time position at my local daily newspaper.  I called the cops twice a day in our county to see if anything interesting had happened in the past 24 hours and I wrote obituaries.  Every now and again, my editor assigned me a light … [Read more...]

Filed Under: African American History, Ancestry, Uncategorized, writing Tagged With: James Baldwin, The Daily Record, The MacDowell Colony, Thornton Wilder

Hello, again.

January 27, 2017 By dionneford 1 Comment

About a year ago, I realized that my blog was broken. I tried to figure out what was wrong with it, but alas, life had given me other priorities. I had a Master of Fine Arts degree to finish, and a thesis project to submit that was different than what I was working on in my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: African American History, Ancestry, Brazil, family history, writing Tagged With: Caroline Grant, Godfrey Cheshire, Ilsa Brink, New York University Creative Writing Program, Simon Romero, Sustainable Arts Foundation, The New York Times, Tony Grant

FINDING JOSEPHINE

The search for my family's history began at age twelve when I asked the simple question, "Grandpa, are you white?"

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