Nina Simone

Arnold Hedgeman, both National Council of Negro Women members who raised concerns regarding women's participation in the March with Bayard Rustin of SCLC (cds.library.brown.edu), actors with the like of Eartha Kitt, singers, Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone, and prolific writers like Phillis Wheatley and women who were all of these things like Maya Angelou, used their talents to bring light to women of color and the oppression that is faced by them on a daily basis. In the poem “Still I Rise”,…

John Legend, singer, songwriter, pianist, is a 36 year old extremely talented man who has succeeded in far more than just reaching fame in music. He comes from an interesting historical background; his 4th and 5th grandfathers were born slaves and died freed men. Being that John Legend was always into Classical soul, hip-hop and gospel music since early childhood, he carried that interest into the music he composes today, which makes him one of the few artists in the r&b/hip-hop music industry…

All my thoughts were directly centered on Luke when I walked into my door. I tried my hardest to think about something or someone else. I didn’t want my mind going off to dreamy land before I even had the opportunity to know more about the man that had captured so much of my attention tonight. Then my thoughts easily moved to the man whom I was supposed to be with tonight on an amazing date that went downhill quickly. I wished in this moment that the date was with Luke, then I would still be…

Leadership is being able to effectively lead a certain group of individuals through many obstacles of any given purpose or place. It is understanding what everyone wants and what is best for the group along with the community. It also means to guide people through their own challenges as well as their own whether they be internal or external. To me, leadership is something a person can have or achieve throughout their life as they help out their community or others around them. They make…

The 1950’s- 1960’s saw a big change in society, as well as in the constant growing music industry. In the States and the Uk, people were still holding onto many aspects of the past: -World War 2 for example, and the crisis that many people went through, which many artists in future decades used and were inspired by different social and cultural events which gave inspiration to make some of the most well known songs in classic rock in the 80’s: for example: the song “one” by Metallica- which is…

CHAPTER ONE The governmental inspiration based on the impact of inter-European energy challenges and competitors for preeminence. People from France, and Italy were competitive for energy within Western energy state policies. One way to demonstrate national preeminence was through the getting places around the world, including African-American. The public factor was the third significant element. As a result of industrialization, significant public issues grew in Europe: lack of employment,…

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…