More than 60 years later, Langston Hughes’ ‘Black Nativity’ is still a pillar of ...
But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the ...
PBS2 年
Musical Movements: Impact, Influence and Issues
African American fiddlers were popular fixtures in ... Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin for the first time as a musical play. Not surprisingly, the plantation songs of Stephen Foster often ...
PBS6 年
A Controversial Play
Learn more about this rarely performed play and why a depiction of physical affection between a white woman and an African American man caused such uproar in 1920s America. The play opens in an ...
Cambridge University Press1 年
African Americans and the Pacific War, 1941–1945
In the patriotic aftermath of Pearl Harbor, African Americans demanded the right to play their part in the war against Japan. As they soon learned, however, the freedom for which the United States and ...