I finished reading Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Jitney, two plays by August Wilson. They were my reading assignment for Black History Month this year. I posted my reactions to them as a comment on Sister Judy’s blog at Mrs Hammer’s House: The Black History Month Contest. And thanks, Judy, for calling me Brother Dean B. I usually only hear that kind of thing at rehearsals for the Project Manna concert (and I’m not in the habit of using that form of address myself; I had to go back and edit this post to put it in).
As a bonus for reading them, I was googling “August Wilson Jitney”, I think, at work, and that screen was up when my mentor walked in. He said his wife would have been delighted to see me reading that — she teaches African-American history. Honest, though, I gave myself that February reading assignment out of my own interest.