The Tuckers of Tidewater, Virginia (Excerpt)
Two ordinary people
forced to till the soil,
forced to build a country
they were not from
found a way to build
a love for each other,
to marry and create
a family, a legacy.
William Tucker (Excerpt)
Hope is a promise.
Faith that a better day will come.
Belief that things will not always be this way.
Hope is refusal to give up, to die out.
Hope is a child born.
Way back when, hope had a name.
William Tucker.
And They Danced (Excerpt)
And the people moved their feet,
moved their whole bodies
to the melody of horns and stringed instruments,
of marimbas and drums.
They danced to celebrate, to mourn.
They danced as a way to worship, to offer thanks.
-Nikole Hannah-Jones
