These are pics from last week when I spent a day with students at Neumann University, just outside Philadelphia. There were students studying to be Journalists and students studying to be Historians…I have done this before at colleges and just talked to an audience, But these young people had spent the week researching and “vetting” me and had questions about every part of my life ..from growing up during Jim Crow in the “projects” to my teens in the civil rights movement ..and lots of questions about my small part in fighting alongside revolutionaries in Angola ..and they knew about my time in prison in Israel and were very curious about how and why I came to Philly ..Oddly the questions about the Black Panthers came last…The laptops were flying and it was at first kind of scary that there were sources all over the internet about my life …some of it about things that I have never spoken about. But these students were very respectful..and it was great that one of them pulled out two books as “sources” about my life….not everything is on the internet. I got lost driving home..Neumann University is in Aston, PA……NEVER HEARD OF IT….good to still be useful in my “golden years”
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