In Loving Memory of Eddie King Jr.

The late actor Michael Wright breathed life into one of the most legendary artists in Black cinematic history.

(20th Century Fox, “The Five Heartbeats”)

I don’t believe in dead people.

While I don’t believe in ghosts, I also don’t believe that a person’s soul, presence and energy dissipate into the ether when their heart stops beating. I doubt my ancestors are spending their afterlives in the attics of Victorian mansions, pushing vases off white people’s mantelpi…