“As a child I knew that the adults in my life didn’t understand me. What was even more shocking was the fact that no-one ever seemed to try to understand. I was also picked on a lot by my teachers. It’s funny now that I think back, but I’m sure they didn’t appreciate a...
Our route often went through Tanglewood in Western Massachusetts where we would go to an afternoon classical music concert; stay over in the first cheap motel we could find (reservations weren’t required, prices were expensive if they were $6 for the night) and after a prodigious breakfast th...
In 1975, Octavio Paz, Mexico’s poet-diplomat and Nobel Literature Prize winner moved away from his infamous 1950 essay “The Pachuco and Other Extremes”. Echoing the enthusiasm among intellectual circles for the Chicana/o Movement, he wrote “…the Chicano movement has impressed Mexicans and th...
Family history, personal life Floyd’s maternal great-great-grandfather, Hillery Thomas Stewart, was born enslaved in 1857. After receiving his freedom, he amassed more than 500 acres (200 hectares) of farmland in Harnett county, North Carolina. As one of the wealthiest Black men in his ...