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Source: NPR "News & Notes with Ed Gordon"

Roundup

12-31-69

Black Author Examines 'Confederate Kinfolk' [6min]

Ed Gordon talks with author Thulani Davis about her new memoir My Confederate Kinfolk. The book traces Davis's family roots back to a Civil War-era union between a former slave and a white former slave owner.

Read entire article at NPR "News & Notes with Ed Gordon"