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Regina Jemison

Regina was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan and educated in the Detroit Public School System, graduating from Cass Tech High School. She then obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Michigan, and a Juris Doctorate from Wayne State University. She has researched, practiced and taught law and law enforcement since 1993 in various undergraduate and graduate levels. She has also been the Legal Instructor at the Detroit Police Academy. As a young adult Christian, Regina began to get in touch with her vast spiritual gifts, which included her voice and vision for the divine possibilities of black people in general, and the black church in particular. She is the co-author of Follow the Way: A Strategy for African American Ministries in the ELCA. Following the Way is a strategy that was written in 1999 and is fully staffed today and remains as a guide in implementing effective African American ministries in the Lutheran church in the Southeast Michigan region. Regina also finished her first book of poetry expressions, Soul Clothes.

Soul Clothes

Regina D. Jemison
Modern History Press (2011)
ISBN 9781615990955
Reviewed by Irene Watson for Reader Views (5/11)


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Synopsis: Here's your invitation to join a literary as well as a personal relationship with the deeply insightful and profoundly expressive perspectives of Regina Diane Jemison. As you encounter these soul-stirring pieces, you may imagine listening to one of God?s own trombones. The poetry, prose and personality in Soul Clothes, may rub up on a curious and compassionate place within you, a place of stark reality drenched in divine hope. Imagine a John Coltrane solo, with words instead of tenor sax.