[Page 1] Peace. I'm Umar Bin Ha**an of The Last Poets. These days I live with my daughter Sabriyah and my grandon Jabril in Baltimore. My life is full. But I'm 64-years-old now and sometimes my mind wanders back to my youth in Akron, Ohio. That's when I was an "Akro-nite" known as Jerome Huling. We had some wild times in those days. Here's a story I call... Up South In Akron Ohio, Summer 1959 Story by Umar Bin Ha**an (with Bill Adler) Art by Nate McDonough