Bernice

It was there, in an Ojibwe community in northern Wisconsin, that Pember’s mother, Bernice Rabideaux, was born a century ago.

In 1930, as the Depression raged, Bernice and her siblings were sent to St. Mary’s Catholic Indian Boarding School in Odanah.

Bernice suffered greatly at St. Mary’s.

It’s easy to understand how, as a mother herself, Bernice might have struggled to provide adequate affection.

"������ a powerful, synchronized, beautiful instrument you were…Thank you, #RobertaFlack," Bernice King posted to X.