Rain (Nyesha)

Rain on Los Angeles. A young typist meets an activist and begins to reflect on the awakening of a new consciousness. A poem of growing awareness to the sound of John Coltrane’s “After the Rain”. “Storm winds are blowing.”

Melvonna Ballenger was born in 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, and died in 2003. She pursued a career in television, as well as working for the Pan African Film Festival and teaching, with a constant concern for the issues of Black populations.