Bontemps
Americannoun
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Frankie Bontemps, a second generation Chagossian in the UK, told the BBC that he felt "betrayed" and "angry" on Thursday because "Chagossians have never been involved" in the negotiations.
From BBC • Oct. 3, 2024
Tim Bontemps in Detroit contributed to this report.
From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2016
Edited by the Howard University philosophy professor Alain Locke and dedicated, rather grandly, to ‘‘the Younger Generation,’’ the volume included contributions from Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2016
It goes back at least as far as 1931, when Arna Bontemps published his novel “God Sends Sunday.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2015
Fishermen, it seems, are the only honest people, and she and her cargo of fishermen, with an old man named Bontemps, are now heaven knows where since I met them at Portofino.
From The Beach of Dreams by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)
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