Mumbo Jumbo (32 page)

The cast of Reed’s play
Mother Hubbard
, which was performed at the Nuyorican Poet's Café in 1998.

Reed stands at the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem, around 2000.

Reed in Egypt.

Toni Morrison and Reed having breakfast at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco, in December 2004. (Photo courtesy of Tennessee Reed.)

The cast of
A Sampler of the Theater of Ishmael Reed
. The photo was taken in Reed’s backyard, in April 2012.

Reed in Beijing in 2012.

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