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Hughes set out to do what few, regardless of race, creed, or color,
have succeeded in doing, a body of work that has given us a rich,
varied, and often vivid picture of the tops of a lot of things about
Negroes and Negro life in America; rather little … Read the rest
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Much of his work celebrated the beauty and dignity and Humanity
of black Americans. Unlike other writers Hughes basked in the glow of
the obviously high regard of his primary audience, African Americans.
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Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman were
Hughes primary literary influences. He is known for his insightful, colorful
portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties.
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If one is serious about getting a precise understanding of the 1960s Black Arts
Movement, one might grab the recent Journal of Pan African Studies, Poetry Issue,
Guest Editor, Marvin X. The issue has poems by some of the BAM major
players as well as essays and dialogue on … Read the rest
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If you want pure and holy, he says, read the Quran and the Bible, because Marvin
is talking about “the low down dirty truth.” For all that, the poetry of Marvin X
is like prayer, beauty-full of reverence and honor for Truth. “It is. it is. it is.”
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It was rumored that Etta Jamesone of the greatest interpreters of blues, jazz
and soulmade some unflattering comments about Beyonces performance
and the recording of James signature recording: At Last.
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Remembering Etta James
Compiled by Rudolph Lewis
Hers was a difficult life. The legendary singer, who died this … Read the rest
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Without claiming that Kenneth W. Warrens recent essay Does African-American Literature Exist?
in The Chronicle of Higher Education is indebted to Wright, we can provisionally identify
Warrens thinking as an effort to bring affirmative closure to Wrights speculation.
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Du Bois was 67 when he got the NAACP boot. They thought he had no understanding of contemporary realities.
He was old and governed by yesterday’s events, and ethics. We need fresh blood, youth, and new ideas.
These are our black corporate elite, the black businessman, entrepreneurs, enterprisers of … Read the rest
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Let those who shy at the nationalist implications of Negro life look at the body of folklore,
living and powerful, which rose out of a unified sense of a common life and a common fate.
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Books by Richard Wright