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Join NOW!Rumpus contributor Saeed Jones will be writing monthly for Ebony. Don’t miss Jones’ Mother’s Day essay, and latest piece, “Traveling Man,” in which he sets out on a year-long journey. He will be working on a memoir as he goes. “I’ve come home to Memphis in order to leave… I’m here because I need to […]
...moreAt Ebony, Saeed Jones reflects on the vastness of grief as the one-year anniversary of his mother’s death approaches. “Now, though I sometimes cry, I more often feel a sense of awe at the depth of my connection to my mother. Perhaps this wonder is how I know that ten months and more have passed […]
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