[muawiyah]

Let's see. My grandfather's first cousin was John Dillinger's wife.

Not that anybody is proud of that (besides, she was married 5 times anyway), but it's certainly more praiseworthy than being a descendant of Madame Debo.

Uh, John is credited by some with the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago ~ which clearly didn't go far enough.

[hennie pennie]

The Wall Street Journal did its share of slobbering over Rogers in April:

Desirée Glapion Rogers is the descendant of a Creole voodoo priestess named Marie Laveau Glapion. The first time I meet her, she welcomes me into her East Wing lair—a rhythm and blues tune plays on a white iPod, a potted white orchid perches between two windows, fresh flowers sit on a heavy wooden desk. This is a woman who never sees a wilted bloom. The 49-year-old turns on just enough Southern charm to camouflage an aura of self-assuredness typically.....

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