Don’t shoot this Jazz Messenger. Shoot the Piano Player instead. For it is he who plays both the Ebony and Ivory Keys.

Married across the color line in 1968. Memoir: White Wife/Blue Baby. Blogs: "White Girl Mistakes" at www.whitewifechicago1968.blog. Mother of brave Black women.

Rohn Kenyatta is a Medium Top Writer and kas been a contributing columnist for Black Agenda Report, the Los Angeles Sentinel and other publications.

cigar smoker...numbers runner....underworld figure...

Let's get after it!

Historian, Syndicated Columnist, Public Speaker, Social-Cultural Critic. Professor of Black Studies and Gender Studies, at East Tennessee State University.

I don't write limericks. I craft poetic political dissertations.... mostly.