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February 11, 2022 Thanks to Gabriel E. Etienne, a 2021 Fellow in Ideas recipient, for today’s post. The movie Moonlight is a coming-of-age story that details the complexity of the journey of boyhood to manhood of the character Little/Black/Chiron through the issues of authentic Blackness and hegemonic masculinity (Johnson 2003). This review uses the concepts …
March 6, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “There’s more truth in myth than in truth.” – Natalie Diaz Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize speech clearly demonstrates her brilliance. She speaks in parables that are simultaneously straightforward, honest, and complicated. In this speech, Morrison delivers a story of some children who approach …
February 28, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. To listen to a short run-through of all sixty paintings and captions by Jacob Lawrence, visit the Khan Academy’s tutorial or visit the Phillips Collection to view them one-by-one. So much of Black History Month highlights notable African Americans who have contributed positive …
February 7, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “If this war is to be forgotten, I ask in the name of all/ things sacred what shall men remember?” ~ Frederick Douglass Since Natasha Trethewey chose this quote to introduce her poem “Native Guard,” I also begin with it. As the centerpiece …
February 22, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. James Baldwin was working on an unfinished manuscript when he died in 1987. Baldwin’s family recently gave this manuscript to filmmaker and activist Raoul Peck, who then turned it into a 2016 film entitled I Am Not Your Negro. While a text of …
February 23, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Since Du Bois began each chapter of The Souls of Black Folk with a hymn or song, it may also be appropriate to preface this post with Mahalia Jackson’s “How I Got Over”. As we approach the end of Black History Month, it …
February 19, 2016 “There is the nobleness of the human spirit…despite it all… Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave I am the hope and the dream of the slave.” Maya Angelou, “And Still I Rise” In 1926, Langston Hughes published a short essay in The Nation titled, “The Negro Artist and the …
