Curtis Mayfield

a charity that turns up on a list of ‘terrorist organizations.’ The government saw Muslim-Americans’ negative attitudes toward the ‘War on Terrorism’ as acts of terror, in which the Military Commissions Act allowed these people to be held as well (Curtis 2009). As many of us are aware, many Muslims are excessively checked in airport security lines. In 2005, the DOT received 111 complaints from Muslim airline passengers who were required to undergo a full-body search based solely on their…

What is music? That is a question every musician asks themselves. For victor Wooten, music is like a language that connects out to people. The world has two things that are universal in which are music and mathematics. There are barriers common things can’t break troughs but music can. Victor Wooten has develop a way to break those barriers by using not just for art but as a language. Music is a language that can connect two people whit different backgrounds and help unite for a common love it…

At a very young age Lauryn discovered her love for old soul music. The day little Lauryn found her mothers old records was the start of a journey. The records included classic hits from artists like Marvin Gaye, Tami Terrell, Gladys Knight, Curtis Mayfield, Roberta Flack, Donny Hathway, Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder. Hill had her mothers sixties soul running through her veins. By the age of 8 she was an expert on old soul music. She started out by singing in front of the mirror and then…

robots eventually put on. For me it was a little haunting. One thing to note is that Daft Punk does not use their own music in the film, which was a little disappointing for a Daft Punk fan, instead they go with Brian Eno, Todd Rundgren and Curtis Mayfield. The music still fits well with the film. Now that I’m done praising the movie it’s time for the complaints. Earlier in the review I said that slow isn’t necessarily boring, but with Electroma I feel that they did drag on a little bit. I…

When someone well respected that was of the group - least likely to be respected how do people react ? When someones making a change by doing the simple things she loves , how do people react ? When an African american woman from Birmingham , Al starts paving ways and changing a close-minded society who doesn’t value her “kind” , through her writing how do you react? Would you show respect? Sonia Sanchez , An African American woman , who paved new ways , who inspired billions of african…

Throughout musical history, there have been numerous artists who have shaped the sound, direction and aesthetic of their respective genre and pushed it to uncharted territory. These artists are hailed as icons and their impact casts a vast shadow on both future newcomers and the artists that are currently known to hold the crown. Kanye West is an artist whose name deserves to be held to this standard, as an innovator, tastemaker and arguably the most influential artist of his generation. While…

The Beginnings of a Movement The modern era of civil rights reform can be broken down into a few stages, each start with separated, little scale movements and eventually bringing about the rise of new, more militant ones, pioneers, and organizations. The beginning phase of protest activity, after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, was with the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which began on December 1, 1955. This boycott spurred many more of its kind and demonstrated the unity and determination…

1968: Music As Rhetoric In Social Movements In 1968 social movements sparked rhetorical discourses which occurred in many nations and on hundreds of colleges and in communities across the United States. These rhetorical discourses ultimately changed the direction of human events. Sometimes these points of ideological protests shared views on specific issues, especially demonstrations against the Vietnam War, but each conflict was also its own local conflict. There is no evidence that any…