Angela Carole Brown, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/angela-carole-brown/ A Home for Black Women Writers Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:32:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Angela Carole Brown, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/angela-carole-brown/ 32 32 153713158 A Glint of Amazing Grace https://www.midnightandindigo.com/amazing-grace/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:32:46 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=80974 Autumn, 1978.  The Jonestown massacre had just splashed across the nation’s newspapers, and my mother protectively drew her family into her bosom in an almost hysterical way.  Her career in local government often took her away to conferences, and this time she was due to be the keynote speaker at one in Atlanta the week following Thanksgiving.  She usually left us home to hold down the fort, but this time decided that the whole family would go, take off early, and make a little holiday vacation out of it.  On Thanksgiving morning, we piled into a roomy, rented twenty-six-footer RV

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