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Poems & Other Jazz
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 Salaams 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 thats 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 hed consider publishing some of my work. His response was immediate, and a couple of days after Id forwarded some poems to himthey were part of ChickenBones. What I didnt 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)
(August 11, 1910–December 28, 2009)
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 AwayReverend Pearly Brown / March on Washington 1963
GadaffiObama and the Israeli Dimona Nuclear Plant / Key figures in Libya’s rebel council / Bob MarleyWarWe Dont 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)
Herbert Lewis and Frances Bryant
On the Occasion of Herbert’s 75th Birthday
9 August 2008
Poems by Rudolph Lewis Starlight by Starlight Somebody Been Stealing Pigmeat & Catfish News Hour Scrapbook Me & First Woman Keeping It Trim & Burning Fourth World Poems Postcard from Hell Ode to Bowling Balls When They Flooded New Orleans The street I live on is dying Will the people ever wake up? I Choose Us: The African For Stan Tookie Williams
Nina Remembers in I Put a Spell on You
A Review by Rudolph Lewis
An Angelic Trio by Vince Rogers
Fourth World Poems (Lewis) — Raining in This Terrible Land A New Day Is Coming Waiting for the Great Tragedy A Sideshow in Your Mind
African American Writers Meet Rudolph Lewis The man behind ChickenBones By Jane Musoke-Nteyafas First published: April 18, 2006
The Death of a Prophet, of Creative Militancy / The Heart & Soul of America Are at Stake — Which Way Now? / Remember Cheikh Anta Diop
Mevlut Interviews Rudy A Poetic Journey with Writers in New Orleans Exploring Sexuality from a Black Perspective
The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
By Amiri Baraka
Commentary by Rudolph Lewis
Remembering My Adult Education Students The Learning Place Northwest (1990-1993) By Rudolph Lewis
Poems Learning to be Black Heroes of the Hood Thoughts from the Hood On the Future
A Return to the Civil Rights Movement
By Tom Dent
Reviewed by Rudolph Lewis
A Review of Brian Johnsons Du Bois on Reform (2005) Du Bois & Civil Religion Social Role of Black Journalism By Rudolph Lewis
Urban Legends: Paul Coates and Rudy Lewis
Offer Alternatives to the Current Crop of Contemporary Black Literature
By R. Darryl Foxworth
A Life Won with Blood & Tears A Review of Mona Lisa Saloy’s Red Beans and Ricely Yours (2005) By Rudolph Lewis
For Frank Fitch / For Daddy V / Mother with Me on Canal Street / Visited Home on Monday
Post-Katrina poems: Heartbreak Hotel No Mardi Gras Without Soul Postcard from Hell Ode to Bowling Balls Naked in the Outer Darkness
Music That Heals That Which Hurts In a Time of Chaos Down by the Riverside I Aint No Alarmist Wintertime in America The Propaganda of History
No Mardi Gras Without Soul We’ll Never Be Back the Same Again Which Way Freedom Mosquitoes Fly Out My Head
Last Man Standing for Bea Crockett
By Rudolph Lewis
Understanding “Last Man Standing”
Telling the Truth about Africa Letting Her Become What She Can and Will Be By Rudolph Lewis 
A Review of Bernard Shaws 1933 Fable
The Adventures of Black Girl in Her Search for God
By Rudolph Lewis
For Walter Cotton, Outlaw — lynched by Emporia, VA, March 24, 1900 / By Rudolph Lewis / Confessions of Walter Cotton
Martha Washington’s Colored Granddaughter
Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 4
An Archival Search for Sterling Brown
Maria Syphax, Historical Revision, or a Communist Plot
By Rudolph Lewis
Maria Syphax Case Table William Syphax: A Pioneer
Exploring Sexuality from a Black Perspective A Review of Mya Bs Silence: In Search of Black Female Sexuality in America by Rudolph Lewis
Interpretation in Small Containers Turned On About Two Dreaming You
A Hymn to Kola Boof By Rudolph Lewis
Bio-Chronology of Kola’s Life My Master, My Husband
Driving the Blues Away Or Dying By Degrees Responses to Driving the Blues Away Home to Jerusalem
I AM NEW ORLEANs By Marcus B. Christian
By Rudolph Lewis
Rudy’s Blues– Poem for Evelyn Master Jack Turns Them Black That Aint Gonna Work, At All Smokescreen for a Holy Presence Big Girls Can Handle Absence Fishing Strong on the Moon He Aint Giving Up No Secrets Bottoms Up, One More Round Always in Love the First Time Murmuring in the Smoke of Veils Potomac Dreams of André Breton ShadowBoxing Truth on Druid Hill Master Jack Turns Them Black 
Nathaniel Turner TimeLine 1831 Confessions
Nathaniel Turner: Christian Martyrdom in Southampton
By Rudolph Lewis
Nathaniel Turner Forum Nat Turner in History by Felicia Lee 12 Sonnets in Memory of Nathaniel Turner
Walter Hall Lively (1942-1976) / Robert B. Moore / Max Wilson
State of Race & Class Oppression
State of the Dream White Privilege Shapes the U.S. State Of Black America state of black nation 2005 The State of the Dream 2005
Myths of Low-Wage Workers Skip Gates and the Talented Fifth Responses to Skip Gates The State of HBCUs The State of Black Journalism
Living Scripture in Community What Would “Dr. Kang” Say? Which Way Freedom Social Role of Black Journalism
Bush cronies turning campuses dissent-free Howard Protest Corporate Plantation: Political Repression and the Hampton Model
Baltimore’s #1 Ragamuffin Artist & Musician
By Rudolph Lewis
Michelle Alexander Speaks At Riverside Church / part 2 of 4 / part 3 of 4 / part 4 of 4 / / Cynthia McKinneyUS lawmakers forced to support Israel / Slum Stories: Lost Chanc
A Poetic Memoir
By Rudolph Lewis
Buddy Tate – Mack The Knife / Ben Webster – Chelsea Bridge (1964) / Lester Young 1944Blue 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
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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 andas Life reportedits “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 organizationthe novice labor lawyer honed her civil rights . . .
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