Article last updated January 17, 2024. By Nayaba Arinde, Editor-at-Large. Gratefully reprinted from Our Time Press (original article). On the day after the January 15th death of Viola Plummer, friends and family gathered at her Sista’s Place jazz and community venue in Bed-Stuy, to commune, reminisce, and share food prepared by Attorney Esmeralda Simmons […]
The Magnificent Homegoing of Viola Plummer, ‘Matriarch of the Movement’
January 30, 2024, Reprinted from The Final Call – January 30, 2024. https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/30/the-magnificent-homegoing-of-viola-plummer-matriarch-of-the-movement/ By Nayaba Arinde, @NayabaArinde1. NEW YORK—The “People’s Republic of Brooklyn,” sent New York-based international activist Viola Plummer home as if she were a head of state, with a grand four-hour funeral with hundreds of family members, friends, and colleagues celebrating her life’s […]