Brother Blue
Subtitle: a narrative portrait of Brother Blue a.k.a. Hugh Morgan Hill
By: written and designed by Warren Lehrer ; [with photographs by Tom Wedell & Warren Lehrer of Brother Blue].
Series: The portrait series
Publisher: Bay Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Brother Blue; African Americans -- Biography; Storytellers -- United States -- Biography; Oral biography; Visual literature
Genres: Biography.
Description: Brother Blue is the official storyteller of Boston, an ordained minister turned street poet and raconteur who spins tales of struggle and hope on street corners and in prisons, inner-city schools, parks, subways, and churches. The great-grandson of a slave owner and his slave, Brother Blue rises through the white-dominated spheres of the military, the ministry, and academia. He sheds institutional life to become a roaming town crier fueled by a faith in the transformative power of sacred service.

This portrait gives voice to the heartfelt life stories of a renowned and original storyteller.