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Looking on the Good Side

Pen, Paper, and Nerve on the Go: More Remarkable Newspaperwomen

May 14, 2021 by George Rollie Adams

There is a scene in my novel Found in Pieces where Pearl Goodbar, the story’s main character, gets to hear two of her journalism role models speak at an event that actually occurred in real [...]

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From Human Rights to Muckraking: More Waymaking Newspaperwomen

March 26, 2021 by George Rollie Adams

Pearl Goodbar, the lead character in my novel Found in Pieces, has guts. And she stands on the shoulders of giants. Readers say what they like most about her are her work ethic, her dogged [...]

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Pearl and the Pioneering Newspaperwomen Who Paved Her Way

March 4, 2021 by George Rollie Adams

While I was writing Found in Pieces—my second novel about the 1950s South—no one asked me why I chose a woman newspaper editor as the main character. But if they had, I would have said, [...]

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“Getting Right” with Racial Equality and Equal Justice

February 20, 2021 by George Rollie Adams

This blog may aggravate some people, though it shouldn’t. In any case, as a long-time professional educator and historian and now an author of novels intended to illuminate the evils of racial discrimination, I would [...]

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Oh Compassion, Compassion! Wherefore Art Thou?

November 20, 2020 by George Rollie Adams

Help me out here. I’m trying to understand. Especially now, during the current uptick in the Covid-19 pandemic and with what is happening with doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel all across our country. But [...]

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Missing Amelia

November 7, 2020 by George Rollie Adams

If you love animals and the special bonds that form between them and humans, or if you simply need a reminder that love and kindness still exist in our topsy-turvy world, you will identify with [...]

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