Daughter of Former Vatican Envoy- Obama Is Not An Uncle Tom (Updated)

Mirrors of Justice has the link to this incredible piece. See Elizabeth Lev on Obama’s Speech at Notre Dame

Now there is some very interesting things I never knew. First Mary Ann Glendon's daughter is African American. Also the daughter had a child out of wedlock which her family encouraged her needless to say not to abort. I have never heard this part of Amb Mary Ann Glendon's life.

I suppose she was adopted because looking at this what I think is a family portrait her husband does not appear to be black. ( OK cleared upSee below)

This was an interesting storyline that never seemed to be developed around the Notre Dame controversy. I would like to know more.

Lizabeth Lev has such an interesting web site. She is a art historian and teach in Rome. She is also a "Revert" to the faith and came back to the Church through art

Updated-
Ok here it is

Glendon, 65, grew up in Dalton, a small town in Western Massachusetts. Her father, Martin Glendon, was a reporter for the Berkshire Eagle and became the first Irish-Catholic Democrat to chair the local Board of Selectmen. Her mother came from an old New England family, and Glendon's relatives on that side fought in the Revolutionary and Civil wars. After earning an undergraduate degree, a law degree, and a master's degree in comparative law from the University of Chicago, Glendon went to work at the Chicago firm Mayer, Brown and Platt in 1964. Soon after joining the firm, she used her vacation time and a few weeks of paid leave to go to Jackson, Miss., to defend jailed civil rights workers and help local blacks assert their voting rights.Glendon married an African-American lawyer she met in Mississippi, but the marriage ended shortly after the birth of their first daughter in 1966. For three years, she was a single parent. "I know what single parents are talking about when they describe their difficulties," she told the Los Angeles Times in 1995. In 1970, Glendon married Edward Lev, a labor lawyer she had known at the Chicago firm.

I did not know she did Civil Rights work either