If my father were alive he would be 90 years old. He only lived to be 42. But what he managed to do more fighting, more living, more loving in those 42 years than most of us get to do in a lifetime! He loved me and he was my world. 1/5 
My father also worked ceaselessly with and for Black women! And he taught me that you never stop fighting for an end to poverty because for those who are given much, much is expected. 2/5
My father had been given much by grandparents, Olive & William Wiley. A US Postal Clerk, my grandfather wanted to be a journalist but he couldn’t afford college. But he edited a Black newspaper anyway and put 6 kids through college. 3/5
And today we wish all the ceaselessly loving fathers, including the father of my two fierce and fabulous daughters!
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