In The Arts

“Washington, D.C. Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman, receiving annointment from Reverend Clara Smith during the “flower bowl demonstration,” a service held once a year at the St. Martin’s Spiritual …
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“Home Altar on Ella Watson’s Dresser Top” (1942) was photographed in Washington, D.C. by Parks during the photographer’s fellowship with the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Parks met Ella Watson, a …
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“Portrait of Grandmother and Granddaughter”

© Marcia Michael 2017

http://www.marciamichael.co.uk/

Read more about the series here:

http://www.marciamichael.co.uk/text-for-the-study-of-kin

Jobi Tyson, thank you for sharing your amazing comedic talent with us! You are so gifted!

“Things black grandmothers say in the church choir!”

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“LIKE GRANDMA, LIKE GRANDDAUGHTER”, 2013

© 2017. Ari Seth Cohen

http://www.advanced.style/

For thirty miles The string of cars In my grandmother’s funeral procession Laces painfully through The red-lighted intersections

It’s some kind of a miracle No trucks ram the hearse No …
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I haven’t watched “Daughters of the Dust” since it came out when I was in college in the early to mid 1990s. Julie Dash’s Daughters captured aspects of the …
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Madea holds a press conference to announce she’s the new White House communications director.