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I’m A Mother
By Joy Lynn Clark 7/9/2024 (I wrote and sang this song to an acoustic instrumental of a very famous song while on a coffee break from hiking the Appalachian Trail) Not your daughter I’m a mother are you some other? Oh Missy That is not your name I’ll just dis you Cause I know her I can’t hear you you can’t hear me say your missy this just can’t be Must be Rachel I don’t think so you can hear her how do you know? make me sister but your none to me I’m a mother this just can’t be Not your daughter I’m a mother are you some other?…
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A Response to Virginia Woolf’s, “A Room of One’s Own”
By Joy Lynn Clark (This response to the reading was part of an assignment in Latin American women writers class taught by Professor Christian Roa at The University of Illinois at Chicago) Virginia Woolf is a poet and author. Woolf is a predecessor of Jane Austen and was one of the first women to have tenure at a University. Unfortunately, she was not allowed to enter the library or sit on the grass. “A Room of One’s Own”, was about what she has to live with as the only educated woman on campus and what she wants to achieve as a writer. Because this paper was meant to be a…
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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…
