Finally, I'm at a loss for words.
In a 2001 interview during one of his last visits to his hometown, he talked about race briefly and more about his career in journalism.
In the idiom of his day — after all, he was born in 1913 — he was a Negro, not an African-American, he said.
"There is no such thing as black and white when it comes to races. We all came to this country in different boats," he said with the wisdom of years behind him. "But we're all in the same boat now."
| The Observer-Reporter's Byron Smialek remembers Frank Bolden in "Groundbreaking black journalist Bolden dies at 90"
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