by News Headlines | Feb 2, 2023 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
We’re celebrating what would have been his 121st birthday!He was born James Mercer Langston Hughes on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He began writing poetry as a young child and grew up to become one of the most prolific poets of all time. A luminary in the...
by News Headlines | Jan 18, 2023 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Zora Neale Hurston may have been buried in an unmarked grave when she died in 1960, but her star has been rising, posthumously, ever since Alice Walker brought her back to public’s attention in the late 1970s. Hurston’s masterful 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching...
by News Headlines | Jan 14, 2023 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Zora Neale Hurston’s words live on forever through her many novels.Yet, what some may not realize, is the acclaimed author became a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance.Filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain set out to capture Hurston’s story in the documentary, “Zora Neale...
by News Headlines | Jan 3, 2023 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Affectionately dubbed ‘The Queen of Soul’, the domain of Aretha Franklin stretched far beyond the confines of music. Following in the footsteps of the early female pioneers of music, Big Mama Thornton, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Dinah Washington, Franklin...
by News Headlines | Jan 3, 2023 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Drummer Fred White, an early member of US band Earth, Wind & Fire, has died at age 67, his brother and former group announced Monday. Born in 1955 in Chicago, White began drumming at an early age and went on to win six Grammy awards with the funk band,...
by News Headlines | Dec 26, 2022 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Toni Morrison was born “Chloe Anthony Wofford” in Lorain, Ohio, after her parents moved north to avoid the problems of Southern racism. Her family was made up of migrants and sharecroppers on both sides. She grew up in the Midwest and read everything from Jane...
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