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Posts Tagged: Huxtables

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Forgiving my Father, the Serial Rapist

By Ibi Zoboi

September 6th, 2015

This bit of vital truth to the story of how I came to be came like a puncture—strong, sharp, and sudden.

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Tags: AIDS, bill cosby, Earthquake, father-daughter, fathers, forgiveness, Haiti, half sisters, HIV, Huxtables, Ibi Zoboi, immigration, mothers, rape, rapists, sisters, Vodouisant

The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Bill Cosby’s Faux Legacy

By Josie Pickens

August 8th, 2015

Bill Cosby was never the man, the icon, the protector and illustrator of black culture, the guide, the genius we have created in our minds.

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Tags: A Different World, African-Americans, Afro-Cuban, America, American Dream, apartheid, Art Blakey, B.B. King, Barack Obama, Betty Carter, bill cosby, Camille Cosby, childhood, Claire Huxtable, class, daughters, Dizzy Gillespie, education, Ellis Wilson, Fat Albert, fathers, fathers and daughters, feminism, Heathcliff Huxtable, Huxtables, James Baldwin, jazz, Josie Pickens, Kristi Ruehli, Lena Horne, Mario Baza, Michelle Obama, Miriam Makeba, mothers, Pound Cake Speech, poverty, Racism, rape, Reaganomics, Sam Cooke, Santaria, sexism, Spelman College, stereotypes, television, The Black American Experience, The Black Community, The Cosby Show, The media, Tito Puente, wealth, White Americans, Willie Colon

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