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ONLY ON SUNDAYS: MAHALIA JACKSON’S LONG JOURNEY
BY JANIS F. KEARNEY
A Note from the Author
Most African Americans born in the early 50’s knew Mahalia Jackson’s music.
Part of our rite of passage was watching “Imitation of Life” each year with our families. I will never forget each one of us inside my large family finding our spot on the divan or the floor close by, watching quietly, breathless, this movie that successfully pulled on every emotion we had every time we watched it.
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But, none like that final scene when Mahalia Jackson rises to sing, “The Troubles of the World.” Not one eye would be dry after that scene…not even my stoic Mom, or my Dad, whose hardness was always tempered with a soft spot.
Still, who of us could claim that we knew anything more about Mahalia Jackson before now?
I was reintroduced to this Queen of Gospel 15 years ago in Chicago, the place she’d called home most of her life. Former U.S.
Senator Roland Burris, who was also form