Not the promised land: Black trek north a bittersweet journey Roots of misfortune

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Not the promised land: Black trek north a bittersweet journey Roots of misfortune
Their stories start in the Jim Crow South, when black pedestrians had to step off the curb for white pedestrians, when 15,000 people watched a teenager burned alive and when there were separate windows for customers of color at movie theaters, racetracks and post offices.
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Joan Bakewell: ‘Elevation is rather a grand word, isn’t it?’
If there was ever a picture book published on north London’s chattering classes, then the square in which Joan Bakewell lives would be its front cover. Each one of the three-story Regency homes in this immaculate corner of Primrose Hill has been lovingly painted in a kaleidoscope of pale shades. Pastel yellows, egg shell blues, light pinks and – in Bakewell’s case – a calming olive green. It is …
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