Sublime

“For me one of the greatest gifts that our black brothers and sisters have given to us is in always remaining hopeful. Your hope in God has been a gift to us as white Americans and to this country.”

Brevity?

In Atlanta, a few months after my visit with Walter, I would go to a Bearden exhibition at the High Museum. The pieces depicted his youth in Charlotte, North Carolina, before his family moved north. There was also a video installation showing in the center of the exhibition room. Albert Murray sits alongside Bearden in much of it. They talk about h

30 percent of Black medical school graduates first served as Pullman porters.13 In 1924, my grandfather told the New York Times, “I was studying to be

“Eulogies aren’t résumés,” David Brooks wrote.34 “They describe the person’s care, wisdom, truthfulness and courage. They describe the million little moral judgments that emanate from that inner region.”

his understanding of the roles and functions of music in Black American culture, the legacy of black aspirations for freedom in the United States, and his intent to follow the “creative urge.”

whatever his peer’s financial situation might have been, that had no bearing on his truth about money.

about her leadership capabilities and political knowledge.43