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UAlbany prof. Senior TED Fellow. Digital ethnomusicologist illuminating music as instrument of violence against girls | YouTuber | Wikipedian| CH moderator
Jun 21, 2020 9 tweets 4 min read
#HappyFathersDay to all the Black girls who had multiple dads. Whose dads where absent due to sufferings as Black men in America. Whose demons were larger than their dignity. Read captions for sight impaired for more insights into Norman Lee “Tom” Evans and Walter Shirley. Miss u You’ve got a new story to write. And it looks nothing likeIn 2002, I met my father for the first time at 40. I forgaveThis was the first father I knew from 2 to 9 y/o. He sores oHere I am at 4 maybe. In Black and white. A digital capture Photo 1. 1/x I met my father at the age of 40 in 2002.We have photographed here outside the house where I grew up. He had lived 15 minutes away all my life and I never knew it. He came from Indianapolis. He was one of 13 children. He passed away in 2006 from prostate cancer.