Glenn Hughes

other. During this period, publishing houses opened their doors to black authors. African Americans were excited because they thought this case would help to revolutionize race relations while enhancing their understanding of each other. Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alaine Locke were a few prominent names associated with the Harlem Renaissance movement. A common theme in which these three artists portrayed was black identity. While growing up, I did not read half of these stories; I…

The Harlem Renaissance was a time when the African American community flourished. It was a time of great discovery, mostly in the arts. Many wonderful African American poets, authors, musicians, and artists emerged during this period and are still highly regarded to this day. Those that rose up created a voice for the African American community, and paved the path for others to join them. The explosion of cultural pride during the Harlem Renaissance led to social change for African American…

The documentary The African Americans Many Rivers to Cross tells that nearly 1.6 million African Americans migrated north into the booming economy of places such as Harlem that was predominately white. That is, until 1910 when African Americans quickly outnumbered the white population in 1980 and actually made up more than 90 percent of the city’s population. Zora Neale Hurston’s writing is both a reflection of and a departure from the ideas of the Harlem Renaissance as represented in Janie’s…

A New York native, Jean-Michael Basquit was a street artist whose work eventually achieved global recognition and success. As a self-taught artist, Jean-Michael Basquit first left his home in lower Manhattan to pursue his art and support himself with odd jobs. During this time, punk, hip-hop, and street art greatly influenced New York City’s urban culture. His graffiti first received recognition in the 1970s when he tagged subway trains and buildings with cryptic sayings under the name “SAMO".…

Freedom Freedom is a word that can be defined in many ways to different minds, but in literary terms freedom means “the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved”. Two great poets by the name of Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes wrote two extraordinary poems called “I know why the caged bird sings” and “Democracy”. These two poems open your eye to the word freedom. I choose these two poems because, me personally being of Haitian decent I see how my people are treated and thought of. We think we…

with a complexity and a self-knowledge that have proven durable even as the African American condition changed considerable with the unfolding of the twentieth century.” From the Harlem Renaissance, collaborated as a special relationship, Langston Hughes— “define the spirit of the age, from a literary point of view, through his brilliant poetry and other writings…,” and “…the finest first-person account of the renaissance, a treasure-trove of impressions and memories on which virtually all…

Artist Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Mexico City, Mexico. She grew up in the family’s home where she was born. Her father, Wilhelm, was a German photographer who had immigrated to Mexico where he met and married her mother Matilde. She had two older sisters, Matilde and Adriana, and her younger sister, Cristina, was born the year after Frida. She grew up being an atheist. In 1922, Kahlo enrolled at the National Preparatory School. She was one of the few female students to attend the…

African-American writers, Maya Angelou and Lucille Clifton, use their words to express their individuality and the impact of oppression on the lives of blacks. These widely respected poets accentuate strength and persistence through adversity, with a sense of morality. They also touch on the influences of segregation and women’s suffering and inequality. In spite of these, every word read by the reader is analyzed and criticized. Even with such few words, the poems, “won’t you celebrate with me”…

In Langston Hughes poem “I, Too, Sing America” the author gracefully speaks through the eyes of a dark skinned man living in 20th century United States. Readers are taken back to a time before African Americans were seen as equal in America. Hughes poem represents what millions of African Americans felt when they were personally discriminated against, simply because the color of their skin. Although the speaker is being treated unequally, he loves and believes in America, repeating the phrase…

Frida Kahlo, who was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacan, Mexico, was a Mexican artist known for self-portraits, which had a deeper meaning. Frida Kahlo used oil, Masonite, and canvas for her self-portrait paintings. She died on July 13, 1954, in Coyoacan, Mexico, due to a pulmonary embolism. The art styles of Frida Kahlo were surrealism and realism. Surrealism is an art form when a painting has unrelated images in a very strange way. Realism is a style of painting are depicted as they are…