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'Negritude' Encore!
Revisiting a black art movement.
Village Voice

By Martha Schwendener
"Negritude" is a hip-sounding neologism invented by French-speaking writers in Paris in the 1930s. The idea was to create a pan-African identity, resistant to colonialism and informed by sources like surrealism, post-revolutionary
Haiti, and Harlem Renaissance writers such as Langston Hughes and W. E. B. Dubois.

Why African-American Art is so Hot
Forbes
By Susan Adams

Work by these artists is controversial and sizzling. Robert Johnson explains why.
Hanging in Robert Johnson's den is an oil from the 1930s by an African-American artist named Palmer Hayden. The painting depicts a black American businessman getting his shoes shined.

Profile: Derek Walcott: A smear silences the colonial bard

Beatings and abuse made Barack Obama's grandfather loathe the Britishd

Barack Obama's true colours: The making of the man who would be US president

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in their OWN WORDS

Black Founding Fathers: An Interview with Richard S. Newman
By David Liebers
June 30, 2008
The History News Network

Richard S. Newman is Professor of History at Rochester Institute of Technology. His most recent book, Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers (NYU Press), is a long overdue biography of Richard Allen, a prodigious figure in the formation of the black Church. He was interviewed by email.

Professor and Preacher Michael Eric Dyson on Hip Hop & Politics, Don Imus, the  "N"-word, and Bill Cosbymicheal0eric-dyson
June 30, 2008


A conversation with Derek Walcott

Wole Soyinka on how he came to write Death and the King's Horseman

Toni Morrison interview: Long road to freedom

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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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hit & RUN

Return to AfricaMarcus_Garvey
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.

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rave REVIEWS

Art Review | Jacob Lawrence
Visions of a People in Motion
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 ExhibitionStruggles
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.

Homeward bound

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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

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poetry CORNER

Poet's Muse: A Footnote to Beethoven
The Poet Rita Dova

By Felicia R. Lee
The New York TimesRita Dove Picture

Rita Dove, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former United States poet laureate, has now breathed life into the story of that virtuoso, George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, in her new book, “Sonata Mulattica” (W. W. Norton).

Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Eloquence of Rioters
By Raphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski
The PopmattersPicture

This poetry, symbolically violent in its choice of literary form and symbolically subversive in its choice of Creole, reveals the literacy of rioters.

Phillis Wheatley Poems

NEW DVD COLLECTION ON POET PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR FEATURES RECITALS BY NATION’S TOP BLACK POETS

Poets for Obama Blog

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ebony CLASSICAL

Sound of Woodwinds, Calling for Change
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
Woodwinds-pic November 14, 2008
The New York Times

In “Afro,” the jaunty first movement of the sultry Concerto for Wind Quintet by Valerie Coleman, the music evokes Afro-Cuban song and percussion with wailing melodies that dance over ostinato patterns for horn and bassoon.

Groundbreaking Marian Anderson String Quartet looks to future
By Tom Keogh
May 19, 2009
The Seattle Timesmaria-anderson

Marian Anderson String Quartet took the legendary singer's name, with her blessing.

Opera World Finds New Voice In Eric Owens

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