Ellington Was Not a Street

Ellington Was Not a Street takes us into a time of bold African-American community, experienced by poet Ntozake Shange when she was a child in her family home. It was a time of the congregation of Duke Ellington and Paul Robeson, Dizzy Gillespie and Ray Barretto, W. E. B. DuBois and the Clovers, and Shange was a witness to it all. Illustrated brilliantly by the amazing Kadir Nelson.