The Last Children of Mill Creek [Excerpt]

"My father was the grandson of Mississippi slaves, and the son of a thrice-married and divorced mother who had cleaned white peoples’ homes and cared for their children in two states by the time they settled in St. Louis in 1929."

2020-05-29T13:42:21-04:00May 18, 2020|

2014

"Yes, I have been here before / On the threshold of justice’s door / Half a century ago / In Selma, Oxford, / And Birmingham." [From "The St. Louis Anthology"]

2019-07-09T16:27:11-04:00June 26, 2019|