Still Word- & Deed-Bonding: A 100-Year-Old Kwansaba: 1917-2017
(For East Saint Love & North Saint Luck. For The First, Second, Third & Fourth Whirls)
By Eugene B. Redmond
We mince no minds. Just mesh them--art
fully--like Poets end vesting in an
economy of speech. As house-calling omens
of 60's-mined Africanities & resolve, we're
innate/ornate staples & bonds. Our own
fore-bearers ending a hundred-year-long
night of rafting across a burning river.
Three community gatherings inspired this kwansaba: a January 26 Arts & Culture Committee meeting of the East St. Louis (IL) 1917 [Race Riot] Centennial Commission and Cultural Initiative (EStl CCCI); a January 28 meeting of the St. Louis (MO)-based Better Family Life Board of Directors; and a same day cultural expo at St. Louis' AfroWorld. The CCCI Arts & Culture meeting was held at the ESL home of Reginald Petty & Edna Patterson-Petty. And AfroWorld's expo included a gospel play, poetry, sermonic interludes and awards to “unsung heroes.”
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