Harlem Globetrotters

Kendrick Lamar is a modern day Harlem Renaissance author. He talks about personal experiences with struggles he has gone through and seen and that all other blacks have gone through. He mentions the typical black stereotypes of physical features that are used to put a label on black people. His newest album has mostly this dark, depressing story like format about the battles and struggles that himself and other blacks have gone through. Though included on the album is what he claims to be the…

Harlem has been deeply associated with the vibrant life of african americans for more than a century. Harlem is the place where musician and bootleggers lived together, poet and pickpocket ate in the same dining room and preachers, physician all were aristocrats. On the contrary, Harlem 1920-1980s experienced deterioration of housing stocks, high crime rates and devastating effects of Crack and Cocaine. However, major changes have taken place in the last two decades where Harlem is no longer…

Beginning in the late 19th century, immigrants from Southern Italy and Sicily began to settle in a neighborhood of East Harlem, New York. The immigrants brought with them the values of their homeland, many of which were centered on their devotion to their Catholic faith and to their families. The American-born children of these immigrants often felt oppressed by and disconnected from their parents’ values and ideals, and tensions between the immigrants and their children often ran high. While…

Judgement Day Visual Analysis Annually, people become educated about the final days on earth and what will take place. On the final days, God will destroy the earth, create a paradise for those who are faithful to him and punish those who were unfaithful or unenlightened of his will. The judgement will include adults, teenagers, toddlers and infants. Unfortunately, there are many people that are unaware of their religious status within themselves and with God. Our society is covered with…

the Apollo merged itself with the African-American Culture in Harlem. Gave people the chance to audition and show their talent. Participated on the Civil Rights Movements alongside Black Nationalist and last but not least created fundraiser for the people of Harlem. Every time Harlem is mentioned one thought that flashes through our minds is always The Apollo Theater. The Apollo Theater is located in the Capital of New York City, Harlem on 125t. At the beginning Hurting and Seaman’s New…

aspects of photography, painting, drama, poetry, and prose during the Harlem Renaissance. Each aesthetic person had their own purpose for their works of art. Many of them wanted to depict the beauty of Harlem as well as emphasize the importance of equality between races and classes. The Harlem artists produced many great works of art in the black community from the 1920s and beyond. There had been a few people during the Harlem Renaissance that were very well-known for their…

families, in order to escape social prejudices. Black Harlem is an environment that can evoke the best and the worst out of the characters. For example, the novel is set during the Harlem renaissance, when jazz music was becoming a popular thing and created an ability to seducing people like Dorcas, or making people like Alice fear. There is also the apparent economic and social disparity that African-Americans faced in a poverty-ridden city like Harlem, which has been a common theme in many of…

Sharon Zukin’s “Why Harlem is Not a Ghetto” explores upon the reinvention and Manhattanization of Harlem. Zukin goes in depth about how Harlem went “from a dark ghetto into a middle-class, racially integrated, cosmopolitan community” (93). She examines the factors that pushed for gentrification, the influence it had on the neighborhood’s metamorphosis, and the effects of the displacement of traditional residents and businesses through new commercial activity. Through her detailed analysis of the…

It is still considered her best work and is currently considered a classic of American literature. However, during the Harlem Renaissance, this work was not only controversial but one that was heavily criticized by the Black Intellectual community. "Their Eyes Were Watching God" begins and ends with Janie, the main character, telling her life story to her dear friend Phoeby…

We Real Cool, written by Gwendolyn Brooks shows the path youths faced when they chose to not attend school. Brooks was born before the Harlem Renaissance, which gives the poem its setting. The Harlem Renaissance was the rebirth of African American Arts (History). We Real Cool is a ballad. A ballad is a poem telling a short story based on a theme or narrative (Strand and Boland 73). We Real Cool shows what is was like living as an African American young man during this time. The poem opens with…