*On this date in 2004, Kweisi Mfume announced his resignation from the President's post of the NAACP. Saying he needed a break, Mfume announced that he was stepping down as the head of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights group.
The last quarter moon of the dying year,
Pendant behind a naked cottonwood tree
On a frosty, dawning morning
With the back of her silver head
Turned to the waking sun.
Quiet... THE LAST QUARTER MOON OF THE DYING YEAR by Jonathan Henderson Brooks.
