Skinfolk

What Is The 4th of July to This Slave Descendent

“To emancipate all slaves born after passing the act. …”that they should continue with their parents to a certain age, then be brought up, at the public expence, to tillage, arts or sciences, according to their geniusses, till the females should be eighteen, and the males twenty-one years of age, when they should be colonizedContinue reading “What Is The 4th of July to This Slave Descendent”

WAH-DE-MEL-UHN!!! A slice of refreshment and a symbol of Black economic ingenuity

Watermelon is a sign of summer. I love it! I could eat watermelon every day of the year if it were available. When I was a child my Daddy, G. H. ‘Shorty’ Lewis, grew watermelons, among other things, in his backyard garden. On a hot summer day you could go into the back yard andContinue reading “WAH-DE-MEL-UHN!!! A slice of refreshment and a symbol of Black economic ingenuity”