by Hedi Rudd | September 26, 2020 | Feature
I need you to go to New York with me this weekend.” That is what Ms. Milele said after saying hello. I was at work at the Urban League, looking out my window onto the parking lot. “What?” I said. “I am going to the Harlem Fine Arts Show and I need you to come with...
by Artist Jerry Butler | September 26, 2020 | Feature
She appeared in the office wearing a long, flowered skirt with a lite yellow top that matched the flowers in her skirt. Standing erect she turned her shoulders slightly to address Marie, my office manager and stated: “I am Milele Chikasa Anana, publisher and editor of...
by Fabu Phillis Carter | September 26, 2020 | Feature
I have the November 2011 edition of UMOJA Magazine in my hands to hold the precious memory of my first and only time to be on the cover of this stellar magazine. I was nearing the end of my term as Madison Poet Laureate. As the first African American poet to ever...
by Yvette L. Craig | September 26, 2020 | Publishers Note
I must be honest. I have not been able to properly grieve the loss of my mentor, Milele Chikasa Anana. The communitywide celebration of life honoring Ms. Milele is postponed indefinitely due to the uncertainty of when the novel coronavirus outbreak will be contained....
by UMOJA Staff | September 26, 2020 | Feature
Milele Chikasa Anana returned to the ancestors on May 6 after a long illness. The illustrious publisher of UMOJA Magazine, civil rights activist and Madison village matriarch was 86. We celebrate her crusade for racial equality, her voice of anguish for Black...
