It was 1:03 a.m., California time, early Sunday morning. That’s when my cell phone alerted me with the news bulletin that Julian Bond, the long-time fighter for civil rights, had died.
And with that I knew my Cinderella moment was done.
I was in San Francisco and in a pretty celebratory mood after attending the Saturday night banquet of the Asian American Journalists Association and being named the winner of its prestigious Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice.
It’s named for the late Dr. Suzanne Ahn, an immigrant from Korea who was raised in Arkansas and Texas and became a successful physician, neurologist and inventor in the U.S.
