August 2009 Issue [Notebook] Fatheralong 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 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… JB & FD (1) To need his glasses and be struck by an awareness that they are not at hand, an ordinary enough circumstance for Frederick Douglass, except sometimes it’s accompanied by a… Adjust Share