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Posted inOpinion

On Mother’s Day, skip the flowers and invest in the moms

Avatar photo by Andre Perry May 12, 2019March 30, 2020

Elsie Mae Boyd worked as a domestic worker, cleaning white people’s houses, through the 1950s and ’60s in Pittsburgh. When I was born in 1970, my biological mother struggled to take care of me so Elsie — the woman I call Mom — informally adopted my older brother and me, with my younger brother joining […]

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