“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
Dashai Morton, a 12-year-old from Maryland told her grandmother that what she most wanted for her birthday was to help people affected by recent hurricanes. The 6th grader celebrated her …
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OWN recently announced that it is bringing back 227! In the process, it is bringing back Pearl Shay (played by Helen Martin), a black grandmother raising her grandson Calvin Dobbs …
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Jobi Tyson, thank you for sharing your amazing comedic talent with us! You are so gifted!
“Things black grandmothers say in the church choir!”
For more on Jobi Tyson:
“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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“In 1996, Alice Marie Johnson was sentenced by a jury to life without parole on non-violent drug conspiracy charges. On Oct. 31, the 62-year-old great-grandmother will have served 21 years …
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