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The Black Tax

Posted March 14th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf

When I was growing up, an oft repeated admonition was that black people had to run faster, jump higher and be twice as good as white people if we aspired to catch up (much less get ahead) in an overwhelmingly white world. Over time, I surmised that must be true. I cannot tell you how […]

Digging Up Dead White People

Posted March 4th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf

Tom and I will be hitting the road in May. We will drive more than five thousand miles, visiting ancestral locations in 15 states. Our tour will no doubt include plenty of sojourns in cemeteries. My uncle says I like digging up dead white people. It’s not that I “like” doing this, it is just […]

Writer’s Paradise

Posted February 5th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf

Writing is never easy. It is hard to sort through the cacophony of messages reeling in one’s head and condense them down into readable form. But that is exactly what a writer must do. In collaborating with Tom DeWolf,  I face the prospect of filling more than two hundred pages of a book that communicates […]

LET’S GET THIS PARTY STARTED

Posted January 31st, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf

After two and one half years of thinking, working, writing, planning, proposing and nail biting, we are confronting the reality of what the next two years will bring. We received our signed contract from Beacon Press a few weeks ago. We now have until December 1, 2011 to deliver our final manuscript. Once published, we […]