Daytona

My relationship to NASCAR is a mite complicated, as is any southern expat’s, but it essentially fits the following parameters:
1. I don’t usually much care for NASCAR fans, unless they’re related to me.
2. I was raised on a steady diet of Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt, but when Earnhardt died I was a [...]

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Western Avenue

Essie Mae Washington-Williams was on the radio the other day promoting her memoir, Dear Senator, about her life as the illegitimate African-American daughter of the U.S.’s most notorious “former,” as the words go, segregationist. A picture of myself and said segregationist — he must’ve been in his 70s at the time, I was perhaps three [...]

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