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Jonathan Odell

Jonathan Odell is author of The Healing and Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League. He now lives in Minneapolis where he is at work on a memoir.

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I am a recovering racist: I was somehow taught hate as a gift of love

Jonathan Odell
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“Tell me this one, Momma”: Each snapshot revealed something new about who we were

Jonathan Odell