Sentences with phrase «double black mother»

Corner Pocket # 93 — Double Black Mother Nature presented Fernie with an interesting problem at Corner Pocket.

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I recall quiet Saturday mornings, walking with my father block to block, as he pointed out the landmarks no one else knew: the spot where the Third Avenue El of old stopped (he pointed out the supports hidden beneath the black asphalt); the apartment house where another close - knit family lived in cramped quarters, the three boys studying in dim lights under their mother's watchful eye to become a lawyer, a doctor, and a priest (and later a bishop); and the double spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the place of my parents» wedding and the baptisms of their three boys.

Beloved functions not as a supernatural but as a frightening natural presence, in her double significance as both the child killed by her mother to spare her a life of slavery and the haunting memory of all blacks who suffered and died under slavery.

Moist breezes from the Black Sea, doubling back over the Caucasus, should dump on the slopes great quantities of what local officials call «the champagne of powders,» Mother Nature's blessing on Mother Russia.

The mortality rate for babies born to black mothers is in the vicinity of double that for all races combined.

A vintage trunk that the owner's mother gave her doubles as a characterful coffee table, picking up the black and gold tones in the artworks.