Tag: Black Pittsburgh

• Finding Home in John Edgar Wideman’s Homewood

  During my three week stay in Pennsylvania for the NEH Summer Institute on Contemporary African American literature, I decided to take the opportunity to visit the home of my paternal grandfather in nearby Pittsburgh. As some families are wont to do, mine took the liberty to write my father out of my personal narrative. It…

  kameelahmartin

  August 12, 2012

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  African American Genealogy, Ancestors, August Wilson, Black Pittsburgh, Homewood Trilogy, Leadbelly, PA, Pittsburgh, Todd Ledbetter