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Gina Greenlee, Author
2 days ago0 min read


What Beautiful Looks Like: 2026
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Gina Greenlee, Author
Feb 221 min read


East Side Story
Image Credit: Gina Greenlee, paint, ink, collage For more of my take on growing up on New York City’s Lower East Side: Black and Blintzes: Growing Up Not Quite Jewish on the Lower East Side Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York Hush Life, a novel No Tears for Frankie: A Memoir on the Life of an Essay ◊ ◊ ◊ Take a YouTube tour of my hometown. The background song is the 1977 hit Native New Yorker , performed by Odyssey . The lyrics, shared in this

Gina Greenlee, Author
Feb 11 min read


Dr. Daniel Black: “Here They Come Ya’ll, Here They Come!”
African American Studies Professor Dr. Daniel Black treated graduates to an EXPERIENCE at the 2024 Spring Commencement Ceremonies at Clark Atlanta University.

Gina Greenlee, Author
Jan 41 min read


Overlooked No More: Bessie Stringfield Motorcycle Queen of Miami
Bessie Stringfield impressed people with her accounts of being chased off the road as she traveled through the segregated South in the...

Gina Greenlee, Author
Jan 19, 20251 min read


Toni Morrison on “Standing at the Edge and Claiming it Center”
Interviewer : You don’t think you will ever change and write books that will incorporate White lives into them substantially? Toni : I...

Gina Greenlee, Author
Apr 7, 20242 min read


Black Like Me: Representation in Animation
Image credit: Aphton Corbin My March 11 post got me Googling: “Drawing black people features in cartooning.” Image credit: Aphton Corbin...

Gina Greenlee, Author
Mar 17, 20241 min read


A Trip to the Grocery Store
Author and educator Dr. Joy DeGruy shares how her sister-in-law uses her White privilege to stand up to systemic inequity.

Gina Greenlee, Author
Nov 27, 20221 min read


A Black-Owned Beach Is Returned to Its Owners after 97 Years
Wedding portrait of Charles Aaron and Willa A. Bruce who purchased the beachfront property in 1912. Image Credit: California African...

Gina Greenlee, Author
Sep 18, 20221 min read


Diggin’ on James Brown
Ya know the more things change The more they stay the same It may be a different age But I'm on the same page Cause one thing that I've...

Gina Greenlee, Author
Apr 16, 20221 min read



Gina Greenlee, Author
Sep 20, 20200 min read
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