Wade in the Water II grey suit he embodies the forgotten voices

he embodies the forgotten voices

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For those who call Brooklyn home

Allow me to show you the beauty of my inner song

Playing shortstop and batting cross-handed

Wade in the Water II grey suit he embodies the forgotten voicesA wooden footbridge stretches across a slow country creek, and the whole church is standing on it. Women in white, men in dark suits, parasols tilted against the morning light. Below them, waist deep in the water, the minister lifts his hand while a candidate waits to go under. This is Sunday morning in the rural South, and Ted Ellis painted it the way it was lived. Wade in the Water II holds a moment that generations of Black families know by heart.