REFLECTIONS OF THE DEATHS OF FRIENDS

It’s been a long few years of death and semi-isolation. Since 2018 I have had nine friends/mentors die. All black men, most in their 50s and 60s, most of them who worked in the worlds of music, film and literature that I’ve worked in. And a lot of these losses have come in bunches. In January and February 2018 I an actor, record executive and early rapp…