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On This Day In Black History Dec 14 - Journalist Stanley Crouch

On This Day In Black History Dec 14 - Journalist Stanley Crouch

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. · Thursday, December 14th 2023 at 6:55PM · 439 views
Stanley Lawrence Crouch (December 14, 1945 – September 16, 2020) was an American poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist, and biographer. He was known for his jazz criticism and his 2000 novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?

Biography
Stanley Lawrence Crouch was born in Los Angeles, the son of James and Emma Bea (Ford) Crouch. He was raised by his mother. In Ken Burns' 2005 television documentary Unforgivable Blackness, Crouch said that his father was a "criminal" and that he once met the boxer Jack Johnson. As a child he was a voracious reader, having read the complete works of Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many of the other classics of American literature by the time he finished high school.

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robert powell Friday, December 15th 2023 at 8:40AM


This MONSTER of COLORED'whiteSupremist' thought was an American Divisionist, negroid Apologist....

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, December 15th 2023 at 12:47PM

Mr. Robert Powell, what makes you say that about Mr. Stanley Lawrence Crouch?

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