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...Barbara Johnson ...

... In this chapter, Bernadette Marie Calafell interviews Strange Fruit creator E. Patrick Johnson. Johnson opens the interview by sharing that he wanted Strange Fruit to be an homage to the women in his family and black feminists, to whom he credits his own awakening about gender and sexuality...

... This short chapter is a meditation on the way singer/activist Bernice Johnson Reagon (who lived downstairs from the Freeney-Harding family) used the tones of traditional African American congregational singing to comfort Rosemarie’s Aunt Hettie who had recently lost her daughter. Bernice...

... Sargent Johnson was the most highly lauded and successful African American artist of a generation that came to prominence during the period known as the Harlem Renaissance. His art and his life story are especially compelling, for they reveal the complexity of being a modernist artist of African...