![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shange’s Mood Indigo poem, dedicated to Duke, the first part of a trilogy: This is really a book celebrating African American men-she grew up in “the company of men”-such as Paul Robeson, Dizzy Gillespie, Honey Bear Akins, The Clovers. But this is in part a memoir for Shange-I was there!-during what was (perhaps) a harder time to be black in America than now, and what could be forged in that isolation, often powerful, such as the music of Ellington.Īs she says, “DuBois walked up my father’s stairs” (!! Imagine that!) Trust me, I live in segregated Chicago, near segregated Milwaukee, and whatever work to de-segregate schools and housing has largely been undone. A picture book by the poet Ntozake Shange, beautifully illustrated by Kadir Nelson in part about Duke Ellington, but more broadly about a time in which segregation was more rigidly enforced by skin color. ![]()
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