Eileen Markey

3 weeks ago | commonwealmagazine.org | Eileen Markey

Is there a season for funerals the way there was a season for weddings and baby showers? I look forward to seeing the women with whom I was a girl—for a moment at the back of church, the graveside catch-up. We’ll populate a table at the reception after, crows knowing all the hard parts, the never-finished. There was a season of brushed silk and feathery lace. Spaghetti straps and that burgundy satin one with the bones and embroidery, makeup appointments for unlined faces.

Jul 25, 2024 | thenation.com | Eileen Markey

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Aug 9, 2023 | 1africafocus.com | Eileen Markey

Members of the Bronx African American History Project and the hip-hop group Rebel Diaz gathered in 2008 at the birthplace of hip-hop.

Jun 13, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Eileen Markey |Molly Crabapple |Mychal Denzel Smith

This article appears in the June 26/July 3, 2023 issue. Mr. Julius Bennett, 86, stately in a long coat and fedora, walked dutifully into a courtroom on the third floor of the Bronx County Housing Court. He and a knot of stubborn neighbors had repeated this ritual several times in a snail-like series of hearings, attempting to use the court to compel their landlord to make repairs.

Jun 10, 2023 | thenation.com | Eileen Markey |Mychal Denzel Smith |Molly Crabapple

Mr. Julius Bennett, 86, stately in a long coat and fedora, walked dutifully into a courtroom on the third floor of the Bronx County Housing Court. He and a knot of stubborn neighbors had repeated this ritual several times in a snail-like series of hearings, attempting to use the court to compel their landlord to make repairs.