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Remembering April 4, 1968

We all remember where we were on April 4, 1968. We remember when we first heard that Martin Luther King, Jr. had been shot. We remember learning soon after that he had died. Indeed, that he had been assassinated. We already had lived through the assassinations of...

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Of Serendipity and the Ancestors

It has to be more than coincidence that so many clues and links to my family history just keep being placed in my path. Last Saturday I was at a Columbia University alumni luncheon, leaving late, as usual, because I had lingered to talk to just one more person! I...

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Four Free Women Re-visited

In April 2012 at the time of the 150th anniversary of the emancipation of enslaved people in the District of Columbia--a prelude to the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863--I saw a photograph in the Washington Post of four women centenarians, who had gathered...

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Four Free Women: 1916 Emancipation Reunion

I couldn’t stop staring at this photo. Four elderly black women, “all older than 100, at a convention in the District in 1916,” said the caption in last Friday’s Washington Post. Hoping to learn more about them, I logged on to the Root DC's page of the  Post’s...

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Madam Walker and The Doctors Dumas of Natchez

Combine clues in a faded 1916 letter with the algorithms of Facebook and the distance across decades wondrously evaporates…Imagine my delight a few days ago, when the universe again activated those two degrees of separation, this time to photojournalist Joseph Dumas, whose grandfather and great-uncle, had made a brief appearance in On Her Own Ground because of their hospitality to Madam Walker during a visit to Natchez, Mississippi. Read more at https://aleliabundles.com/blog-2/

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Serendipity: Family Photos

Walker Family Photos (A'Lelia Bundles's Walker Family Archives)Doing the research about the women in my family brings many incredibly serendipitous moments. Last fall out of the blue I received a call from a gentleman who had purchased these photos at an auction. My...

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On Her Own Ground Book Tour

  Click here for C-Span Video  On Her Own Ground Book Tour-Detroit 2001 I'm having a great time going through C-Span Book TV's archives. Hard to believe my book, On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker, is a decade old. Here's the presentation at...

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Baltimore-The Winner’s Summit

Title: Baltimore-The Winner's SummitLocation: Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards 110 S. Eutaw, Baltimore, MDLink out: Click hereDescription: Entrepreneur Deborah Hardnett presents three day conference featuring A'Lelia Bundles, Linda Clemons, Sheila...

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