Category: Featured Writers

Media Backtalk The Washington Post by Howard Kurtz Washington, D.C.: Any comment on the lack of play given to the outrage amongst African-Americans regarding the failure of Strom Thurmond’s illegitimate […]

Thurmond’s past invites new scrutiny: Revelation of his mixed-race daughter will cause re-examination The State by Joseph S. Stroud On July 31, 1948, two weeks after he became the Dixiecrats’ […]

What a Family Secret Begat: Essie, Strom and Me: For One Reporter, 1981 Tip Finally Yields the Big Story by Marilyn W. Thompson The Washington Post Sunday, December 21, 2003; […]

This “Jabari Asim” character sounds jealous. This myth that all “miscegenation” involving “whites” males was “rape,” doesn’t hide the jealousy “black” males feel when “white” males are preferred as sexual […]

Thurmond’s Daughter, Free at Last by David S. Broder The Washington Post Sunday, December 21, 2003; Page B07 She entered the hotel ballroom slowly, her head high, a small woman […]

Darryl Fears’ article is a set-up. There are no stories of loving, accepting white relatives to balance the negative stories. It’s another “black” attempt to scare people into accepting the […]

I Am Strom Thurmond’s Daughter (5 Letters) The New York Times December 19, 2003

Thurmond Family Struggles With Difficult Truth The New York Times December 20, 2003 By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN After Essie Mae Washington-Williams told the world this week that she was Strom Thurmond’s […]