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Article: Life Works Of Poet Gwendolyn Brooks Celebrated During Memorial Service In Chicago.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- January 8, 2001
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Not even a cold winter blizzard could keep hundreds from packing into the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago to pay their last respects to acclaimed poet, writer and humanitarian Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks.
For nearly three hours, Brooks' family and friends celebrated her legacy with Messages from the World, a collaboration of brief personal reflections and readings of a poem or excerpt from one of her works.
Noted historian Lerone Bennett Jr., executive editor of EBONY Magazine, officiated the service and described the world-class poet as "a Chicago institution, like Michael Jordan, and the lake."
Her "cultural" son, Haki ...