• Journal

    The Cemetary On the Colored Side (Buried Alive)

    October 9, 2017 /

    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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  • Music

    Blackface The Album

    May 16, 2016 /

    By Joy Lynn Clark BMI 5/16/2016 This is one of the last records that I made on the Southside of Chicago. Just off of 19th street near Lozano Library. Boy did I rock out along with all of the other musicians from the neighborhood. Of course I lost my privacy, and I ended up moving south to get closer to Nashville. I was still fumbling with the titles but, it was still a great album.

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