AFRICAN American artJAZZCAREER developmentBLACK power movementAn introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the integration of art and music in education, the desire for art to speak to the everyday experiences of Afric...
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File: American poet and writer Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967), circa 1945. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) In the 1920s and 30s, Black art would be given an international spotlight thanks to the rise of the Black Renaissance and New Negro Movement, according to ASALH. ...
In this hefty volume, Celeste-Marie Bernier presents fifty short essays on contemporary African American and Black British artists in pursuit of an "alternative critical language and a new scholarly framework" (2); however, the book is also "a warning that we are not there yet" (xii). She...
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African Americans - TV, Film, Representation: Nat King Cole was the first African American entertainer with a network television series (1956–57), but, despite the singer’s great talent, his variety show had trouble attracting sponsors. In the decades
From Creed and Selma to Girls Trip and Moonlight, these are the most critically acclaimed Certified Fresh African American movies of the century so far.