The image of a typical American cowboy — a rough-hewn white guy in dirt stained blue jeans, cowboy hat and boots — is a staple of Western movies and modern country music. But as icons go, it gives an incomplete picture. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] While many cowboys on the American frontier in the 19th century were […]
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Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem | Black Perspectives
Erica Ball, Black Perspectives [dropcap]L[/dropcap] ift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it feels as if it has always been a part of our lives. When we attend an official community event or local celebration, I suspect that very few of us are […]
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Ebony, Jet fire remainder of staff, may close its doors for good | The Atlanta Voice
Miana Massey, Chevrolet DTU Fellow | The Atlanta Voice, The Atlanta Voice [dropcap]THE[/dropcap] It’s official, Ebony Magazine—along with its sister publication Jet Magazine—has potentially closed its doors for good. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Former employees of the company took to Twitter last week using the hashtag #EbonyOwes to air out their frustrations with the company, as it […]
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Stevie Wonder’s Close Friend Reveals He Is Suffering ‘Health Challenges’ | Essence
The legendary singer is rumored to be struggling with his health, though his reps admit he is “doing better.”
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Uncovering the Soul of the ‘Black Is Beautiful’ Movement | The New York Times
The New York photographer Kwame Brathwaite helped ignite a global celebration of African-American style and identity.
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Hear Wade in the Water: An Unprecedented 26-Hour-Long Exploration of the African American Sacred Music Tradition | Open Culture
Open Culture, Open Culture [dropcap]It[/dropcap] may well be a truism to say that American music is African American music, but that doesn’t make it any less true. And when we reduce truths down to truisms they lose the granular detail that makes them interesting and relevant. Everyone knows, for example, that there would be no […]
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Before the Central Park Five, There Was the Trenton Six | Black Perspectives
Denise Lynn, Black Perspectives Trenton Six, 1949, (Charles White via Museum of Modern Art). Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] four-part docuseries When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay, has brought attention to the notorious case of the Central Park Five, a legal case that for many of us unfolded in living memory. The attention the docuseries […]
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25 Black Women Launches To Celebrate Black Women In The Beauty Business | Essence
A dinner was held to launch the collective, which works to celebrate and elevate Black women in the beauty industry.
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Manslaughter Charge Dropped Against Alabama Woman Who Was Shot While Pregnant | The New York Times
Farah Stockman, The New York Times [dropcap]Prosecutors[/dropcap] in Alabama said on Wednesday that they were dropping a manslaughter charge against a woman over the death of the fetus she was carrying when she was shot in the belly, in a case that stirred national outrage. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Likewise, Negro Spirituals and the black gospel tradition […]
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Lead Belly | Folkways Recordings
Folkways Recordings, Folkways Recordings [dropcap]Lead[/dropcap] Belly is “the hard name of a harder man,” said Woody Guthrie of his friend and fellow American music icon who was born Huddie Ledbetter (c. 1888–1949). From the swamplands of Louisiana, the prisons of Texas, and the streets of New York City, Lead Belly and his music became cornerstones […]
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