9 years ago
In the News: OWN Brings Back 227 and Grandma Pearl Shay
OWN recently announced that it is bringing back 227! In the process, it is bringing back Pearl Shay (played by Helen Martin), a black grandmother raising her grandson Calvin Dobbs …
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9 years ago
Our First Christmas with a Grandbaby
Christmas 2013 was special. My daughter, my son, their dad and I spent the week together for the first time in almost 20 years.
The venue: the home of my …
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9 years ago
TESTIMONY: IFALADE TASHIA ASANTI
“My daughter is the greatest gift that God ever gave me. My grandchildren are a close second.”
Iyanifa Ifalade Tashia Asanti lives in Marina del Rey, California. She is an …
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9 years ago
TESTIMONY: TERESA WOODS
“Hard Work Brings Good Things To You”
My biological grandmother died while giving birth to my mother. So, her oldest daughter raised my mother. Although she’s my aunt, I see her …
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9 years ago
IN THE ARTS: Things Black Grandmas Say In the Church Choir
Jobi Tyson, thank you for sharing your amazing comedic talent with us! You are so gifted!
“Things black grandmothers say in the church choir!”
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9 years ago
IN THE ARTS: LIKE GRANDMA, LIKE GRANDDAUGHTER
“LIKE GRANDMA, LIKE GRANDDAUGHTER”, 2013
© 2017. Ari Seth Cohen
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9 years ago
Stories of Grateful Grandmothers Giving Thanks for Seconds
After our first plate of food from the Thanksgiving dinner table, we take second portions from the dishes we enjoyed. We intend to build on the satisfaction of the first …
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9 years ago
IN THE ARTS: MAKING WAY FOR SISTER
For thirty miles The string of cars In my grandmother’s funeral procession Laces painfully through The red-lighted intersections
It’s some kind of a miracle No trucks ram the hearse No …
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9 years ago
TESTIMONY: DANIELLE GAY
“Equal in All Things”
One thing I remember about my grandmother, Virginia Gay (April 18, 1935-) is how it was always important to her to keep my brother and me …
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