MaranathaTRC@hotmail.com<\/a>. Thanks to all of you for your support. Ira was a talented, spirited artist and a loving human being. ~ Ronald Lonesome<\/p>\nFrom her Bio from WOW’s GRIOT festival
\nIra Jeffries has been a playwright for over twenty years and a member of the WOW collective for over ten years. She is a graduate of City College with a B.A. in communications. She has written over twenty plays, most of which have been produced at WOW. She founded Kaleidoscope Theatre to produce her own plays and deal with issues of the lesbian community. In 1985 she received an Audelco Theatre Award for Excellence in Playwriting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
please forward widely especially among your networks (There is a AWESOME and historic audio recording of Ira Jeffries, Griot Circle Founder Regina Shaver and others talking about about their lives as African American lesbians over 50 and the our history as Black LGBT people http:\/\/www.griotcircle.org\/ – Imani Henry) The Passing of Ira Jeffries – July […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMmJz-i3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":106,"url":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=106","url_meta":{"origin":1119,"position":0},"title":"Book Reading: Their Own Receive Them Not (NY)","author":"","date":"April 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The Riverside Church\u2019s Maranatha: Riversiders for LGBT Concerns Sponsors Book Reading About Black Gay Christians Maranatha: Riversiders for LGBT Concerns, a ministry of The Riverside Church, will sponsor a book reading, panel discussion, signing and reception for a provocative new book, Their Own Receive Them Not, African American Lesbians and\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":114,"url":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=114","url_meta":{"origin":1119,"position":1},"title":"New Film – She Wasn’t Last Night!","author":"","date":"May 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings, Griot Soul Films is making the first Black Lesbian Romantic Comedy Feature Film, \"She Wasn't Last Night\" and we'd love your support. 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