My sisters Amira and Amani and I drove out to the ocean on the day of our father’s funeral.
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Our father was born in Fort Lauderdale.
He was born in 1948 to Ida Mae (Orange) Livingston and Claude Wilbur Livingston, for whom he was named. Shortly after I was born, he converted to Islam and cha…
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