My New Black Magazine - NYU Black Renaissance Noire BRN-FALL-206 ISSUE RELEASE | Page 127

By
STERLING
PLUMPP

Geography
(In Memory of Sam)
63rd and Cottage
industries of genius.
Here a/Tivoli
Gallery: McKies, Basin
Street and Bird
Land scapes of creativity.
You and Lorraine walked
these streets: grammar
school, high school, on
to Wisconsin. “Black community
had everything it needed,” you say,
stores, markets, doctors, lawyers,
and tailors of
speech and swagger. Integration
destroyed everything.”

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63rd and Cottage
industries. Place DePriest
revives a black presence
in Congress;
Washington fortifies a city
with humanity;
and Obama launches possibility
In the white
imprimaturs to dominate.