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3 days ago · Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 [1] : 17 [2] : 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. [3]
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2 days ago · Hoodoo is a set of spiritual practices, traditions, and beliefs that were created by enslaved African Americans in the Southern United States from various traditional African spiritualities and elements of indigenous botanical knowledge.
5 days ago · Hadley references scholar Matthew Morrison, whose new book “Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States,” uncovers the genesis of the popular music industry, emerging from slavery and blackface and packaged in minstrelsy that usurped rhythms and sounds of enslaved people.
3 days ago · March 24, 1896–January 24, 1975. Scholar and folklorist John Mason Brewer was born in Goliad in 1896. Over his fifty-year career, Brewer almost single-handedly preserved the African American folklore of his home state. Brewer's grandfathers were wagoners who hauled dry goods across Texas.
8 hours ago · African American parents, educators, and authors have long cared about, discussed, and written literature for African American children, despite various barriers to this genre of literary production. 1 In her 1922 essay “Negro Literature for Negro Pupils,” author, editor, activist, and educator Alice Dunbar-Nelson discussed the importance of African American children’s literature.
2 days ago · Wade in the Wateris a Negro spiritual song that teaches slaves to hide and make it through by getting into the water. It’s a perfect map song example with lyrics that offer precious coded directions. Steal Away. This song’s message is that the one singing it is planning to break free from enslavement.
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3 days ago · Marcus Garvey. Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa ...
