Posts By RBGM Staff

Excerpt from Play:

(Near the end of the song, Mother Henry enters, carrying a tray with milk, sandwiches, and cake.)

Richard: You treating me like royalty, old lady – I …
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“Dear James:

I have begun this letter five times and torn it up five times. I keep seeing your face, which is also the face of your father and …
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My grandmothers were strong. They followed plows and bent to toil. They moved through fields sowing seed. They touched earth and grain grew. They were full of sturdiness and singing. …
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Poem for Nana What will we do when there is nobody left to kill?

40,000 gallons of oil gushing into the ocean But I sit on top this mountainside above …
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Excerpt from book:

“My great grandmother Emily died in bed at her Louisiana home at the end of the summer of 1936, with $1300 in cash hidden under her mattress. …
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Interview of Alice Walker, writer of The Color Purple. 

Walker: “May Pool was my great great great grandmother who lived to be 125 so the legend goes: which means she lived …
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Excerpt from book:

“Your wine any good, Pilate?” asked Guitar. “Couldn’t tell you.” “Why not?” “Never tasted it.” Milkman laughed. “You sell wine you don’t even taste?” “Folks don’t buy …
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“I’m a scrub the black off you!”

As a child I spent weekends at my paternal grandmother’s house But not because I wanted to Actually, I dreaded it But, I …
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Senator Nina Turner of Ohio, says her grandmother taught her that “all you need to succeed in life are the 3 bones-the wishbone, the jawbone, and the backbone.”

For more …
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“Mary Coley was among the last generation of granny midwives providing care to pregnant women across the rural South. These women were indispensable at a time when hospitals were often …
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