Denise Bledsoe Slaughter

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73 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 3 Feb

Denise Bledsoe Slaughter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Okay.

First of all, I want to say that I'm going to strangle my friend, J.R., who talked me into doing this.

So you all support murder.

Thank you.

I am 66 years old.

I went to grad school at Brown University.

This is a brief story about Pearl Wolf, one of my two mothers.

Everybody should have a black mother and a Jewish mother.

Okay, I have been privileged to have had both.

And Pearl was my Jewish mother at Brown for six years.

And my last year of grad school, I had custody of my younger brother, who I might note I still have custody of.

45 years later.

You do the math.

It's gotten worse with age.

But really, he was in the ninth grade.

I took custody of him.

My brother's gay.

And he and his father, my stepfather, were not getting along.

I told my mother I'll take him to school with me for a couple of weeks.

It turned into the whole year.

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