American artists

whose company is largely made up of black artists like the Contours, Funk Brothers, Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Supremes, etc. (TheFamousPeople). This shows how a black person helped another black person out and how everyone stuck to what they know. A black man wouldn't get as much publicity as a white man would. Similarly, Selena Quintanilla opened doors for people of a latin background. There was barely any Mexican singers that were popular with the American culture so when Selena had fame…

Arts for African-Americans are seen as “a part of life” showing (to it’s audience the world they experience opposing to showing) “art for art’s sake” this what people Eurocentric people see it as. In African culture, there is no sitting and watching the performer. African…

Smith was born April 15, 1894, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She was an independent African-American woman who was born into a large and poor family. She was one of eight children. At a young age, both her parents and her two brothers passed away. Bessie started singing and dancing on the street with her brother which helped her poor family financially. Her career started when she got a job with Vaudeville. Was given the name “Empress of the Blues” for her ability to endure the obstacles that a…

To millions of Americans, jazz was the most notable part of the Harlem Renaissance. Borrowing from blues, ragtime, and other popular forms, jazz musicians developed an ensemble style in which individual performers, keeping a rapid ragtime beat, improvised over and around…

instrument they use, or the rhythm. However, these two types of music have become popular and share a variety of differences and similarities. Hip-hop was originated in the 1970s’ in Bronx, New York, and was practiced by African Americans and then influenced by Latino Americans. In old times they would use wooden sticks and metal cups to form a beat to go with the music but, when technology started advancing djs’ were the ones who created the beats and rhythms of the music by using their…

world moved to America to find their own American Dream. Nancy Lee Johnson, a senior at George Washington High, had a passion for Art and contested to win a scholarship, which she thought would be her way out to a better life. Nancy Lee’s displeasure to not winning the Artist Club Scholarship due to her being a “Negro” made her to rethink the true meaning to the Pledge of Allegiance that she said every week at the assembly’s. Nancy Lee was a proud “Negro American” even though she knew that “A…

If he hollers let him go, is an essay by Rachel Ghansah. It is a review of political, personal, and family reasons of Dave Chapelle, famous American comedian, to move back to his hometown yellow spring Ohio. When his career and popularity was on the peak, he left his stand up show and moved, though he appeared on TV and gave some official interview later. According to some critics, it was more emotional decision, than thoughtful. Rachel Ghansah was trying to find out Dave’s true motives. It is…

of the Harlem Renaissance is that it was the first artificially created movement specifically engineered to display the works of African Americans at the time. The Harlem Renaissance is unusual among literary and artistic movements for its close relationship to civil rights and reform organizations (Hutchinson 1). The pioneers of this movement in African American culture were essentially activists who had goals and objectives that they wanted to achieve for their race within society at the…

change---- Talkin ' filets with the truffle butter”(Nicki Minaj Truffle Butter). When you think about the word “nigga” and how it has been controversial since the early 1900s, not only are African Americans using the word “nigga,” it is getting said by within all of the different races. Even the rap artist are expressing the word “nigga”when they consecutively use it in every stanza in their rap or song. I can still remember my freshmen year when I was trying to get through a crowd of white…

Race relations between Asian Americans and Black Americans have always been rocky. In order to understand the historical relationship between Asian and Black Americans, it is important to understand the intersectionality of hip hop and how it’s shifted through history. There is so much racial tension between Asian and Black people and hip hop was used both to widen and close the gap between the two groups. Hip-hop for both Asian and Black people has been used as an act of rebellion, but despite…