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The unfulfilled longing

I have a distinct childhood memory, of a scene from a film I saw, where a man is looking at a blue flower, which I remember as a blue rose.   Steve Latham   The image has stayed with me, throughout my life: a picture disconnected from anything else, anything […]

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Malcolm X meets Fidel

When Cuba’s president travelled to the United States in 1960 and a hotel refused to accommodate him, it was the charismatic advocate of African-American rights who found him accommodation.   Deisy Francis Mexidor   Born in Omaha, Nebraska, on 19 May 1925, he changed his first name Malcolm Little to […]