Image 1: You’ve Been Played, Chump. Image by Ishmael Reed and Tennessee Reed.
Image 2: This is what happens when you mess with the daughter of Kali. Image by Ishmael Reed and Tennessee Reed.
Image 3: Termite Control. Image by Ishmael Reed and Tennessee Reed
Image 4: Clothes by Gerald Jackson
Image 5: Painting by Gerald Jackson
Image 6: Eugene Redmond, the late Dr. Jerry W. Ward, Jr and Ishmael Reed at the Black Arts Movement Conference at Dillard University in New Orleans. September 10, 2016. Photo by Tennessee Reed
Image 7: Ishmael Reed Being Interviewed by The A List’s Alison Lebovitz at the Public Library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. March 15, 2025. Photo by Tennessee Reed.
Image 8: Ishmael Reed and Alison Lebovitz. Photo by Tennessee Reed.
Image 9: Ishmael Reed and Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly who gives Reed a key to the city. March 15, 2025. Photo by Tennessee Reed.
Image 10: Carmen Davis, who hosted the Reeds, Ishmael Reed and Chattanooga mayor Tim Kelly. March 15, 2025. Photo by Tennessee Reed.
Image 11: Tennessee Reed and Ishmael Reed with Ishmael Reed’s brother Bennie Reed, Jr., nephew Bennie Reed, III and grand-nephew Tavarse Reed. March 15, 2025. Photo by Carmen Davis.
Image 11: Ishmael Reed on Chattanooga’s Cameron Hill. March 16, 2025. Photo by Tennessee Reed.
Image 12: Reed with the cast and crew of Ishmael Reed’s “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda,” which will be performed at Howard High School in Chattanooga from May 2-4. 2025. Reed’s mother graduated from Howard High in 1936. March 16, 2025. Photo by Tennessee Reed.
Image 13: Ishmael Reed in front of Howard High School. March 16, 2025. Photo by Tennessee Reed.
Image 14: Karla Brundage and Tennessee Reed stand in front of posters of the front covers of the first and second issues of Tar Baby Quarterly at the Tar Baby Quarterly launch party at Kenkeleba Gallery in New York City on March 23, 2025.
Image 15: Tar Baby Quarterly founder Ford Morrison and editor-in-chief Tennessee Reed at the Tar Baby Quarterly launch party on March 23, 2025. Photo by Karla Brundage.
Image 16: Co-host of the Tar Baby Quarterly Launch Party Margaret Porter Troupe. Photo by Tennessee Reed.
Image 17: Ford Morrison. Photo by Karla Brundage.
Image 18: Tennessee Reed. Photo by Karla Brundage.
Image 19: Nancy Mercado, who interviewed Felipe Luciano for the first issue of Tar Baby. Photo by Karla Brundage.
Image 20: Chavisa Woods, who has a piece published in the first issue. Photo by Karla Brundage.
Image 21: Karla Brundage, who talks about being the guest editor of the second issue of Tar Baby Quarterly which will be focused on writers from Ghana. Photo by Tennessee Reed.
Image 22: Ishmael Reed at the “Edges of Ailey” Exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art on January 27, 2025. Photo by Carla Blank.
