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Denver singer opts for black national anthem lyrics over 'Star-Spangled Banner'
DeeDee Correll
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 4, 2008
song has prompted a chorus of
criticism.Rene Marie's unexpected
choice at a mayor's event where she
was asked to sing the more
traditional
Some Black Republicans Torn About Voting for Obama or McCain
U.S. News 
By Nikki Schwab
June 27, 2008
The historic nature of Obama's candidacy has some African-American Republicans conflicted
“African-American”: meaning what, exactly?
Africa: Obama 'Reframes the Black Question'
What Obama Believes
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The REB Foundation provides services and funding for classical music education, research, performances, and artists, to benefit listeners and learners alike. Current projects include an instrument loan program, grants for education and career, and creation of a supplemental curriculum of music for strings by composers of African descent.
The Foundation is also undertaking to research, commission, and compile music and collect related information for The String Student's Library of Music by Black Composers. This supplemental curriculum will acquaint students of all races and various stages of development with the rich heritage of classical string music by composers of African descent.
OBAC-WW 
The OBAC Story - Part 1
S. Brandi Barnes
Director
One of the purposes of the Black Arts Movement was to address and combat the prejudice and negative stereotypes of minorities. The movement and its purposes would impact a nation embroiled in Civil Rights and for federal, state, and local governments it was plain civil disorder.
Center for Black Music Research
An Artist’s Grant That Even Pays for Glasses
in their OWN WORDS
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Turns 50 This Year
by Carol Cooper
The Village Voice
On the eve of his PEN American Center celebration, the Nigerian author sits down with the Voice.
The Soprano
Monday, November 26, 2007
By Sergio Mims
When it comes to operatic talent, measha brueggergosman muscles out the competition.
Measha Brueggergosman is without question one of the most talented and exciting classical music sopranos in music today and who is attracting major acclaim all over the world becoming one of the most sought after performers in her field today.
10 Questions for Toni Morrison
An Interview with NATASHA TRETHEWEY
Slavery apology an empty gesture
on BOOKS
It's not a black and white issue
Andrew Anthony
Sunday June 29, 2008
The Observer
Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate
by Kenan Malik
The two sides in the race debate have more in common than you'd think, says this vigorous study
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
George Lewis
University of Chicago Press, 2007
Reviewed by Jim Johnson
Criticizing Cosby
'Never Been a Time' by Harper Barnes
Slaves, traders and pioneers: new book on the most turbulent period of Liverpool’s history
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National Museum of African Art
The Museum opens each day at 9 a.m. till September. Childrens workshops, adult lectures, films and more are happening at African Art all the time.
The Library of Congress African American Resources
On the eve of his PEN American Center celebration, the Nigerian author sits down with the Voice.
African American National Biography
The Root
AfriClassical.com
hit & RUN
Return to Africa
Fellow men of the Negro Race, Greeting
By Marcus Garvey
Negro World, Vol. XII, No. 10
April 22, 1922
For four and a half years the Universal Negro Improvement Association has been advocating the cause of Africa for the Africans -- that is, that the Negro peoples of the world should concentrate upon the object of building up for themselves a great nation in Africa.
featured ARTIST
Penumbra Theatre founder defines American black stage
By Marjorie Kehe
Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
from the June 24, 2008 edition
Lou Bellamy's vision is that everything is performed as if there were only black people in the audience.
Slavery as Seen From the Other Side
By CELIA McGEE
Published: February 17, 2008
BIYI BANDELE comes bearing human cargo.
Mr. Bandele, a playwright and novelist born in Nigeria, now a resident of England, for a long while wrote mainly about the lives he knew in both. But when the Royal Shakespeare Company had the idea of involving him in a production of “Oroonoko,” the play by the Restoration dramatist Thomas Southerne based on Aphra Behn’s famous novel of the period, Mr. Bandele plunged deep into matters of history, responsibility, power, choices of the heart and the fickleness of freedom.
Write, stop, pivot, punch
Borough of Writers W.E.B. Du Bois
Rising Above Racism
rave REVIEWS
Art Review | Jacob Lawrence
Visions of a People in Motion
By HOLLAND COTTER
December 28, 2007
Jacob Lawrence painted “The Migration of the Negro,” 60 small pictures in tempera on hardboard panels, in what seems like a flash.
African Americans’ Struggles, Triumphs Shown in Photo Exhibition
USINFO Staff Writer
By Lauren Monsen
27 November 2007
An exhibition of 100 striking black-and-white photographs evokes the personal stories and hard-won victories of influential African Americans who helped shape the life of their nation over the past 150 years.
history & CULTURE
Where Whites Draw the Line
By MARCUS MABRY
Published: June 8, 2008
How black is too black?
Millions of African-Americans celebrated Barack Obama’s historic victory, seeing in it a reflection — sudden and shocking — of their own expanded horizons. But whether Mr. Obama captures the White House in November will depend on how he is seen by white Americans. Indeed, some people argue that one of the reasons Mr. Obama was able to defeat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was that a large number of white voters saw him as “postracial.”
Will 'Bro Mitzvah' find roots in African American community?
By Jane Ulman, Contributing Editor
JewishJournal.com
March 13, 2008
Decked out in a black tuxedo, a brimmed hat set fashionably on his head, Douglas LeVandia Ulmer Jr., better known as DJ, walked down the aisle to the beat of two African drummers.
The audacity of Bill Cosby’s black conservatism
Presidential Politics 2008 - Obama
The dramas of blacks and Jews
poetry CORNER
A video Featuring footage of Cab Calloway dancing to the melodic musings of Langston Hughes.
Aime acute; Ce acute;saire, Martinique Poet and Politician, Dies at 94
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 18, 2008
The New York Times
FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique (AP) —Aime acute; Ce acute;saire, an anticolonialist poet and politician who was honored throughout the French-speaking world and who was an early proponent of black pride, died here on Thursday. He was 94.
Caribbean poet Cesaire dies at 94
I did my own thing
Poetry from Kemit Mawakana
ebony CLASSICAL
Violin music of Black Classical Composers
Violinist, Rachel Barton Pine plays music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Maud Powell, William Grant Still, David Baker, Coleridge- Taylor Perkinson and other Black composers.
Ignatius Sancho
From African Slave to Composer & Author
January 16, 2008
Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) was an African composer and author who grew up as a house slave in an aristocratic household in Greenwich, England. After emancipation he worked for the Montagu family, which allowed him to thrive, and which later enabled him to open a small shop of his own in Westminster in 1773.
Sinfonietta plans to help minority musicians
Alvin Singleton
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