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Sam Greenlee: Spooks Sitting by Doors

Born in Chicago on July 13, 1930, Sam Greenlee has written poetry, fiction, plays and screenplays, and been a teacher, producer, director and actor.  He traveled the world as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army in the early fifties, … Continue reading

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Carolyn Rodgers’ Foreword to Black Writing from Chicago

In 2005 Carolyn Rodgers agreed to write a Foreword to my book Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It? which came out the following year.  Gracious to me in print as she was in person, her words not only … Continue reading

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