*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.
She stood hanging wash before the sun
and occasionally watched the kids
gather acorns from the trees,
and when her husband came,
complaining about the tobacco spit on him they... MIGRATION by Carole Gregory Clemmons.
