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Her West Philly childhood is stranger than fiction

A child of black nationalists in West Philadelphia, Asali Solomon suffered through her share of bizarre public-library Kwanzaa celebrations. Instead of Thanksgiving, she got Umoja Karamu.

Asali Solomon, in front of Henry C. Lea School in West Philly, where she went. She then attended the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr. (CLEM MURRAY / Staff Photographer)
Asali Solomon, in front of Henry C. Lea School in West Philly, where she went. She then attended the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr. (CLEM MURRAY / Staff Photographer)Read more
    by Samantha Melamed, Inquirer Staff Writer
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