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Say I'm Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love
Written by E. Dolores Johnson
Narrated by Allyson Johnson
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One woman with a black father and a white mother discusses her journey of locating her long-lost white relatives—and the turmoil that accompanies her discovery.
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E. Dolores Johnson
E. Dolores Johnson has consulted on diversity for universities, major corporations, and nonprofits and has served as a panelist for the Harvard Faculty Seminar on Inter-racialism. A former Fortune 500 marketing vice president, she later oversaw the digitization of John F. Kennedy’s presidential papers.
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