![]() ![]() Her high school and college years were ripe with Black political and social movements which is reflected in much of her writing. Their history of independence as well as marginalization in an African American community are threaded throughout her work. Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s she was shaped socially and politically by the close family ties with her great grandmother, Grace and grandmother Lydia. Morandus, a Wampanoag and descendent of Massasoit, the sachem for whom Massachusetts was named. Grace returned to New England before she was 14 when her father died and was married to John E. Gomez was raised by her great grandmother, Grace, who was born on Indian land in Iowa to an African American mother and Ioway father. ![]() 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American writer and cultural worker. ![]()
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