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a woman singing a gospel song

GOSPEL’S HIDDEN FIGURE: OPAL WILLS 1927-2019

April 30, 2022

Take a close look at this picture. There’s much more to it than meets the eye! I called her ‘grandma’ but those who knew and loved her called this dynamic woman, “Mother Wills”. And in her younger days she was…

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a woman and a student on stage

She Is Me

January 28, 2022

I saw her.She saw me.Her name is Brooklyn. She sat front row during an assembly at her Brooklyn school and our eyes locked.Brooklyn is in her mid-teens and tightly held my book about my great-great-great grandmother Emma Wills against her…

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