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| The father of singer, Marsha Ambrosius, during the 1970's. |
Must have had a powerful presence, your dad. I remember those days, and the deep abiding sense of power Black men felt coming out of struggle in the name of the struggle. We had visions for our children, of our children and felt deeply about the vision of freedom, and rights, and righting wrongs, and seizing powers for ourselves. It was always a struggle against what was before. We saw what was before in our parents, and grandparents. Their time made our time. Their struggles and lifetimes informed us, informed our struggle, and led us away from their struggle to counter Jim Crow and its attendant foolery to be Black and powerful!
What that meant rested in what we invested in ourselves, our women, our community and our children!
- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
6.20.13
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| mother of the singer in the 1970's |
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