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By Rudolph Lewis

Send contributions to: ChickenBones: A Journal / 13219 Kientz Road / Jarratt, VA 23867 -- I became aware of Rudy Lewis’ labor of love a few short months ago during a visit to Kalamu ya Salaam’s e-drum listserv. As soon as I saw the title of the journal I knew it was about Black folks, and the power of the written word. A quick click took me into a journal that’s long on creativity, highlighting well-known, little known, and a little known writers, and commitment to the empowerment of Black folks. I contacted Rudy to ask if he’d consider publishing some of my work. His response was immediate, and a couple of days after I’d forwarded some poems to him—they were part of ChickenBones. What I didn’t know was that this journal has been surviving for the last five years with very little outside financial support. . . If we want journals like this to “thrive” we need to support them with more than our website hits, praise, and submissions for publication consideration.

—Peace, Mary E. Weems (January 2007)

Ella Jackson Lewis

(August 11, 1910--December 28, 2009)

Makes Her Transition
Mockingbirds at Jerusalem (Poetry Manuscript)

Masculinity Manliness Violence (Rudolph Lewis) / A Depravity of Logic (Rodney D. Foxworth, Jr.)

Libya Getting It Right (Gerald A. Perreira) / Gaddafi: A System of His Own (Hakeem Babalola)

Can We Say No to a Pig in a Poke?

Mr. Obama as Captain of the Titanic

By Rudolph Lewis

Experience, Wisdom, and a National Mystic

By Rudolph Lewis

Oedipus and Ordinariness: A Meditation on Barack Obama / Obama's Mojo Ain't Working Like It Used To

Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower / Only a pawn in their game 1963 / Steal Away—Reverend Pearly Brown / March on Washington 1963

Gadaffi—Obama and the Israeli Dimona Nuclear Plant / Key figures in Libya's rebel council / Bob Marley—War—We Don’t Need No Trouble

Rattlers and Other Acts of Love

An Obit Assembled by Rudolph Lewis

Sussex County: A Tale of Three Centuries Public Education in Sussex County The Official History of Jerusalem Baptist Church Stith-Mason Family Reunion

Letters of an Abiding Faith:

Legacy of a Slave's GrandDaughter to her Son

written by Ella Lewis to her Son (Rudolph Lewis)

Introduction Table of Contents

Mama's Letters from Jerusalem : Beyond the Potomac or Beyond the Atlantic

Poems from Mockingbirds at Jerusalem (Rudolph Lewis)

Michelle Alexander Speaks At Riverside Church / part 2 of 4 / part 3 of 4 / part 4 of 4 / / Cynthia McKinney—US lawmakers forced to support Israel / Slum Stories: Lost Chanc

Mockingbirds at Jerusalem

A Poetic Memoir

By Rudolph Lewis

Buddy Tate - Mack The Knife / Ben Webster - Chelsea Bridge (1964) / Lester Young 1944—Blue Lester / The Cry of Jazz (1959) Part 1 of 4

The Fourth World and the Marxists Letters from Young Activists Lessons from France Paris Is Burning "The Pyres of Autumn" Responses to Jean Baudrillard Geraldine Robinson remembers The Family of Cow Tom :The Connection of Africans & the Civilized Tribes

The Complexity of Iraq / Islam Needs a Martin Luther / London Bridges Falling Down (Responses) / Open Letter to Dr. Hussein Shahristani / My Son The Fanatic

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Lynchsong

By Lorraine Hansberry

I can hear Rosalee
See the eyes of Willie McGee
My mother told me about
Lynchings
My mother told me about
The dark nights
And dirt roads
And torch lights
And lynch robes

The
faces of men
Laughing white
Faces of men
Dead in the night
sorrow night
and a
sorrow night

1951

Source: AmericanLynching

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Writer Lorraine Hansberry's sober eulogy of the death of Willie McGee weighed heavy on the hearts and minds of the American Left. On May 8, 1951, a crowd of five hundred lingered outside the courthouse of Laurel, Mississippi, to witness the execution of yet another black man convicted for allegedly raping a white woman. His 1945 lightning trial resulted in a guilty conviction delivered in less than two and a half minutes by an all-white, male jury, setting off a heated five-year legal struggle that drew national headlines. Despite an aggressive appeals defense team who attempted every legal maneuver in the book, the US Supreme Court ultimately chose not to intervene. With the legal lynching of the Martinsville Seven in February, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg's conviction in March, followed by the execution of McGee in May, 1951 was a bad year for Left-leaning lawyers (Parrish 1979; Rise 1995). Most discouraging, national news sources like the New York Times and Life magazine red-baited the "Save Willie McGee" campaign and—as Life reported—its "imported" lawyers (Popham 1951a; Life 1951). Few felt McGee's passing with as heavy a heart as his chief counsel, thirty-one-year-old Bella Abzug.

Before Abzug became a representative in Congress and a leader in the peace and women's movements, she confronted the Southern political and legal system at the height of the early Cold War. Retained in 1948 by the Civil Rights Congress (CRC)—a New York-headquartered Popular Front legal defense organization—the novice labor lawyer honed her civil rights . . .

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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan / The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll / Only a Pawn in Their Game

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Panel on Literary Criticism

26 March 2010

National Black Writers Conference

Patrick Oliver, Kalamu ya Salaam, Dorothea Smartt, Frank Wilderson discuss the use of literature to promote political causes and instigate change and transformation. The event is at the Medgar Evers College at the City University of New York. C-Span Archives

Panel on Politics and Satire

26 March 2010

National Black Writers Conference

Herb Boyd, Thomas Bradshaw, Charles Edison and Major Owens discuss how current events are reflected in the writings of African Americans. The event is at the Medgar Evers College at the City University of New York. C-Span Archives

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The White Masters of the World

From The World and Africa, 1965

By W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois’ Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization (Fletcher)

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Ancient African Nations

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Telling the Truth about Africa Letting Her Become What She Can and Will Be By Rudolph Lewis

A Hymn to Kola Boof

By Rudolph Lewis

Driving the Blues Away Or Dying By Degrees Responses to “Driving the Blues Away” Home to Jerusalem