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More Than I Imagined with John Blake

Love Period with Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis

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The Shawshank Redemption

When John grew up, he and his brother were kept apart from their mom. His mother had a severe form of mental illness called schizophrenia. Her family didn't want anything to do with us because they felt that white and black people should remain apart. In 1967, before Loving vs. Virginia makes it legal to be married, yep, in 1967,. Here are your parents having this courageous relationship because they love each other. And you and your brother grow up apart from your mom. Why is that, John? What happened there?

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