August 2009 Issue [Notebook] Fatheralong Download PDF Adjust Share by John Edgar Wideman, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century 21st century African American fathers African Americans Civil rights Emmett Till Fathers and sons Louis Till Race discrimination Race relations United States More from John Edgar Wideman The Woman-Dream I Suffered From Slaveroad, which will be published this month by Scribner. Lucy Gantt Sheppard brings the glass teapot into a room too full of furniture to breathe. A woman not small,… Colored Angel Levine The story will be published in the collection Look For Me and I’ll Be Gone next month by Scribner. Dedicated to Bernard Malamud. A colored angel named Levine said to… Maps and Ledgers My first year teaching at the university my father killed a man. I’m ashamed to say I don’t remember the man’s name, though I recall the man a good buddy… Adjust Share