Journal
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The Cemetary On the Colored Side (Buried Alive)
By Joy Lynn Clark 3/12/2021 Published on: Oct 9, 2017 @ 05:03By Joy Lynn Clark (this story has been edited from the original) 10/12/2017 I have four ancestors buried at Burr Oak Cemetery on the famous Colored Side. Mother Mamie Roberts, Bishop William Matthew Roberts (CME ), Mamie Thompson and George Thompson I. My ancestor Bishop William Matthew Roberts started Chicago’s Original Roberts Temple. Bishop William Matthew Roberts has an honorary street on Chicago’s Southside (crossing 42nd Street west of Vincennes). The Historic church was much farther East (near Drexel) and was demolished in the mid-1990’s. I am no blood relation to the founders of the New Roberts Temple CME located…
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Singing Stones
I AM THE ONLY ONE AND, IF I COULD VISIT THE MOON I WOULD TAKE A SKATEBOARD . . . 9/23/2017 By Joy Merriweather Ok, I am not the only one but it sure feels like it. The title of tonight’s installation is Singing Stones. This particular exhibition features the artists from Palais De Tokyo and Institut Francais. I laughed. French black people in Tokyo. Got it. Maybe. Maybe not.
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Greenhouse Grown
I’m so fresh and I’m greenhouse grown got so many sprouts from the seeds I’ve sown got rhythm like a drummer on beat, good with numbers it’s the end of the summer but I’m home Genetically modified fruits I love less pesticides than natural does don’t natural me, natural what? you gotta think hard on how you group this all the soil ini the world has pollution show the the controlled environments and they’ll be selling the fruit I get we’re in a whole new world there’s a new definition what you really know about the food that you fixing? chickens in this country are oh so big and…
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A Breath of Fresh Air
3/28/2017 By Joy Lynn Clark Macy’s on State Street is having a flower show until April 9. It smelled great. I took some pictures. it had a Carnival theme. Lol.
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Change My Life
2/16/2017 Change My Life (Been There Done It) Been there, done it played all the games Now things done changed And I’m not the same Had to lose it all, even my brain Had to take a fall, just to see what’s sane Love is serious gotta do for self What’s right for me Cause won’t nobody else Cats steady getting drunk They always getting high I’ll let you walk on by Change my life I was acting kind of savage And I had a few habits That left me kind of damaged Plus I didn’t even know who I was We was just kicking it And dude was…
