A new call-to-action for businesses, non-profits, and government to provide pathways to employment for low-income and disconnected youth in the summer of 2012. Summer Jobs+ "America's young people face record unemployment, and we need to do everything we can to make sure they've got the op... Read more...
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16/02/2012,
by Mr. Blair in African-American Awareness,
Black People,
Blair History Month,
General,
my people
Rita Dove Rita Frances Dove is a poet and author. From 1993-1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now popularly known as "United States Poet Laureate". She was the first, and to date only, African-American to be appointed since the po... Read more...
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14/02/2012,
by Mr. Blair in African-American Awareness,
Black People,
Blair History Month,
General,
my people
Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar was a poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Much of his popular work in his lifetime used a Negro dialect, which helped him become one of the first nationally-accepted African American writers. Much of his writin... Read more...
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12/02/2012,
by Mr. Blair in African-American Awareness,
Black People,
Blair History Month,
General,
my people
John Langston Gwaltney John Langston Gwaltney was a writer and anthropologist focused on African American culture, best known for his book Drylongso: A Self Portrait of Black America. He was a professor of anthropology at the University of Syracuse in New York. Drylongso is a collection of... Read more...
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09/02/2012,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in ::Drop Zone::,
Blair History Month,
Movies,
Video
The true story of how a group of African American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest US fighter groups in World War II Director: Robert Markowitz Writers: Paris Qualles (teleplay), Trey Ellis (teleplay), and 3 more credits » Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Al... Read more...
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09/02/2012,
by Mr. Blair in African-American Awareness,
Black People,
Blair History Month,
my people
Audre Lorde Audrey Geraldine Lorde was a Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist. Lorde's poetry was published very regularly during the 1960s — in Langston Hughes' 1962 New Negro Poets, USA; in several foreign anthologies; and in black literary magazines. During this time, she wa... Read more...
A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution. Director: Ivan Dixon Writers: Sam Greenlee (screenplay), Melvin Clay (screenplay), and 1 more credit » Stars: Lawrence Cook, Janet League and Paula Kell... Read more...
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08/02/2012,
by Mr. Blair in African-American Awareness,
Blair History Month,
General,
my people
Langston Hughes James Mercer Langston Hughes a poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the peri... Read more...
For MumiaAbu-Jamal, I am Ron Kovic author of Born on the Fourth of July. According to recent news accounts, shattered and shredded body parts and remains of U.S. servicemen were found in a landfill. Despite political spins, this sobering image is a telling, true-life metaphor... Read more...