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...marriages in Alabama have more than tripled, from 297 in 1990 to 1,000 in 2000, or about 2.5% of the married couples in the state. An additional 1% of Alabama marriages are unions also involving Asians, Latinos and Native Americans. "It's out of the bigots' hands," says Darryl Clark, a black mechanic in Birmingham who married a white woman 11 years ago. "It's gonna keep spreading...
Melanie Clark, a white Wal-Mart employee who married Darryl, the black mechanic, in 1992, had previously been married to a white man who she says repeatedly hit her. After divorcing him, she explains, she was wary of hooking up with another hard-drinking, abusive "good ole boy." But Melanie, 38, was attracted to Darryl, 36, who showed a gentle interest in her, taking her dancing and teaching her how to hunt deer. Others were less pleased about their getting together. Some of their black neighbors in the rural community of Branchville, Ala.--particularly the women--were so angry about...
...family, including Melanie's four children and Darryl's daughter from a previous marriage, moved to more tolerant Birmingham soon after the shooting. But as stressful as that incident was, Melanie says it hurt even more when Darryl once asked her not to drive him to a job interview because he feared that his prospective boss, who was white, might object to his mixed marriage. As a result, she admits, she prefers that her 16-year-old daughter from her first marriage not date black boys...
BLACK WRITERS READING. Maryse Conde (Segu), Darryl Pinckney (Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature) and Patricia Powell (The Pagoda) speak together next Wednesday, presented by the W.E.B du Bois Institute. The last event of the Black Writers Reading Series, the reading promises to be well-attended, interesting—and it’s your last chance. Wednesday, March 19 at 4 p.m. No tickets required. Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy...
MARYSE CONDÉ, DARRYL PINCKNEY, AND PATRICIA POWELL. Hailing from Guadeloupe and considered one of the premier literary voices of the modern Francophone world, Condé will read from her 1996 tale Segu. She will be joined by Darryl Pinckney, whose work Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature is based on a recent series of lectures at Harvard. Briggs-Copeland Fellow Patricia Powell, who will present her novel The Pagoda. The event is co-sponsored by Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Center and Harvard Book Store. Wednesday, March...