Picture this: a young black woman grows up back-breakingly impoverished with a there-and-gone father. She’s sponsored to go to a private Episcopalian school where the only other black students are ...
In the weeks before Martin Luther King Jr.’s death in 1968, King was busy organizing people to occupy Washington for the Poor People’s Campaign. Considering the deteriorating conditions in black ...
Jesmyn Ward speak and reads from "Men We Reaped" at two events Oct. 17 at Emory University. 2 p.m. at Kemp Malone Library, 537 Kilgo Circle, and 6:30 p.m. at Woodruff Library, Emory University, 540 ...
Five young men dead within the space of four years. They died of different causes: accidents, drugs, and suicide. They had in common being black, male, from rural Mississippi and friends or relatives ...
In 2000, a drunken driver killed Jesmyn Ward's 19-year-old brother, Joshua. The driver was a 44-year-old white man with a history of DUI offenses. He'd serve two years of a five-year sentence. For ...
October 2000. A funeral service for Jesmyn Ward's younger brother Joshua in DeLisle, Miss., a small rural community in the Gulf Coast pinewoods. There are other young black men among the family and ...
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