As I flipped through a box of auction items I didn’t remember buying, I came upon a bulging tan envelope with a Christmas wreath at the top and the names of African American organizations under…
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Lynn & Leslie, Constance Bannister’s African American babies
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Leslie did most of the crying. She wouldn’t sit still for the shoot by famed baby photographer Constance Bannister that day in the early 1960s. Usually, her brother Kevin, about 5 years old, could get her…
I cannot recall my grandmother ever going to church with a bare head. She always wore a nice simple hat. I can still see her getting ready for Sunday services at our family church and…