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Kenneth Cooper
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Freelance Writer & Editor |
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Boston |
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United States |
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02122 |
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Denver |
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CO |
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Member Local Time |
November 22, 2008 12:42 AM |
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August 13, 2008 02:13 PM |
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July 15, 2008 01:17 PM |
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I am an African American whose family oral history says I also have Native American and European ancestry. My mother’s people lived among the Cherokee Indians, as slaves and free blacks, in Oklahoma. I am in the process of trying to document possible Cherokee ancestors. My genealogy research traces my father’s family back to the “Exodusters,” freed slaves who migrated from Tennessee and Louisiana to Kansas after the Civil War. But one paternal great-grandmother was white. She had two children by a black man at a time interracial marriage was illegal in Kansas. On both sides of my family, many ancestors were described in census records as “mulatto.” I was also proud to learn two close relatives identified themselves on their World War I draft cards as “African” or “Ethiopian,” the last a generic term for African a century ago.
For more than two decades, I have been in a multicultural marriage. My wife, Lucilda Dassardo-Cooper, is an artist and naturalized citizen from Jamaica. She is of East Indian and Afro-Caribbean descent. Our cultural differences bring strength and balance to our relationship. I believe people should strive to understand cultural differences and recognize the common human experiences we all share.
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I spent almost 30 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, most of that time at either the Washington Post or Boston Globe. My last newspaper job was as National Editor of the Globe, where I shared a Pulitzer Prize for special local reporting in 1984 at age 28. I was born in Denver and have lived in St. Louis, Washington, D.C., Hyattsville, Md., New Delhi, Cairo and Boston, where Lucilda and I currently reside. This year, I spent the spring semester in Egypt as a Fulbright Scholar at Cairo University while doing a research project on Egyptian newspapers. From Boston, I do freelancing writing and editing on a broad range of topics.
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