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like 40 years ago, in developing the negro almanac, which preceded the black book by seven years, 1967, and it was 1000 pages of facts and documents about african-americans. . . and one of the questions i think they wanted to ask was, what was your favorite part of the book? well, my favorite part of the book was all of it because there was so many things that i was interested in and knew about and also had done some research about. so i m the grandfather, you re the audience, and we ll tell you what we think about what should be preserved for the future. well, i think one of the greatest gifts that my father gave is he gave us back our identity, and a lot of us didn t know from the african diaspora that we were even african. and i know there were even a lot of africa people who had heard of the negroes in america, and they didn t realize that they were the africans that had been displaced, that had been disbursed around the world. and one of the greatest things tha ....