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'Finding Samuel Lowe' Takes Author To China, Jamaica And Harlem

Paula Williams Madison at a screening of "Finding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem to China" in 2014  in Los Angeles. (Arnold Turner/Invision for Panther PR/AP)
Paula Williams Madison at a screening of "Finding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem to China" in 2014 in Los Angeles. (Arnold Turner/Invision for Panther PR/AP)

Despite all of her success, Paula Williams Madison had one unanswered question that plagued her throughout her life: What happened to her maternal grandfather Samuel Lowe?

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson spoke with Madison in 2015 about her book, “Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem.”

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