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Michael Tisserand
@m_tisserand
New Orleanian. Wellstone Democrat. Author of books including KRAZY: GEORGE HERRIMAN, A LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE and THE KINGDOM OF ZYDECO.
Apr 3, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
During this time I want to offer you one of the purest expressions of grief and faith I've ever seen, which is a Krazy Kat comic by George Herriman. 1/7 Krazy Kat is often about Ignatz throwing a brick at Krazy Kat but this installment was different. Krazy is alone in the Coconino County desert and notices a star has fallen. A baby star. 2/7
Aug 2, 2018 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
"I've been here 350 years but you've never seen me. I represent sin, love, death, sex, hell, terror and other things too frightening for you to recognize."

— #JamesBaldwin in a New Orleans church pulpit to a mostly white congregation, 1963 Also in 1963 photographer Steve Schapiro travelled through the South with #JamesBaldwin for LIFE Magazine, and took this photo of Baldwin in New Orleans, dancing with an unnamed CORE worker.