Sunday, June 7, 2015

Ronnie Gilbert 1926 - 2015

We're turning dishearteningly into an obituary blog this month.

Obituary in the NYT here -- and showed up much faster than is often the case, interestingly enough.

I never met Ronnie, but we had a mutual friend, and I remember Jackie handing me a tape one day. "Ronnie sent this to me," she said. "It really sums it up." That was this:



Ronnie's life and career speak for themselves, but the song Bernice Johnson Reagon sang at Jackie's memorial service will serve here, too, I think

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