Zora Neale Hurston

“Well, son, I 'll tell you: Life for me ain 't been no crystal stair.” – Langston Hughes This verse from Langston Hughes’ poem “Mother to Son,” highlights the struggles of the African Americans and how the Harlem Renaissance evolved their community through music, dance and literature. Hughes contributed towards the renaissance through his poems which allowed people to understand the position of African Americans at the time and allowed them to relate to him. He discusses the subjects of…

Analysis about Theme for English B “Theme for English B” is an interesting, famous, and impressive poem that Hughes wrote in his early age. When readers first read this poem, most of them would impress by the author’s courage and short by the concept of it. Langston Hughes writes this poem to tell his instructor don’t doubt his ability through his race color. He uses this poem to share the peaceful American soul with all audiences. At that time, racial discrimination was a major social issue…

President Barack Obama is expected to announce in the coming days a new executive action with the goal of expanding background checks on gun sales, people familiar with White House planning said. Despite the twelve years ago difference, Tea Cake and Janie fall in love. Janie is skeptical of his age. Usually younger men marry for money. Janie thinks that “he could be a bee to a blossom—a pear tree blossom in the spring” (101). She never used the metaphor with neither Logan or Joe before. Tea Cake…

The Harlem was the culture’s name that was given to the revolution or rather the art, and culture that exploded post the world war and was prominent in the middle of the year 1930. Harlem was the neighborhood that was situated near Manhattan. There were people from the south that came in to deliver their art, like the poems with no barriers and the same was a ‘New Negro’ revolution found therein. It was a cultural place where the blacks had a pride to express their art. Hence, the Harlem…

In 1926, Du Bose Heyward wrote in the New York Herald Tribune, “Langston Hughes, although only twenty-four years old, is already conspicuous in the group of Negro intellectuals who are dignifying Harlem with a genuine art life” (Langston Hughes). Langston Hughes is a famous African American author and poet, who lived from 1902 to 1967. He wrote in a modernist style during the time he was an author, which was from the 1920s to the 1960s. He is one of the many African American writers that helped…

Langston Hughes, the brilliant poet and author of the twentieth century, once wrote that it was the “mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.” This mission delegated to all artists was no easy task; especially African-Americans who were consistently persecuted and ignored by white supremacists. For example, if you had a idea - an idea that would change the way that people think of you - but were persecuted and attacked for presenting it, would you…

Chicago Illinois born, Gil Scott Heron, set a new path for music. Gil Scott Heron was commonly known as the ‘father’ of rap music. His poetry deals with issues to do with the Harlem communities, similar to what he had grown up in. His lyrics deal with issues within the African American community. Gil Scott’s literature deals with both class and race. Heron brings to attention many issues dealing with both class and race in the African American community. Gil Scott Heron preferred to think of…

Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano are two authors with a great deal in common. Wheatley, a poet, would often write about mundane matters, but it is her poems on slavery that are of special interest. Similarly, Olaudah Equiano wrote of slavery, but in an autobiographical form, detailing his personal journey from slavery to freedom. And yet, despite their shared circumstances, they had two very different purposes in mind when authoring their respective works, both of which shall be detailed…

Above Water Brittanie K’la Buggs is also known as K’la the Lyricist. She was born in Gary, Indiana, a small industrial town that also birthed the Jackson siblings. She moved to Atlanta to pursue music with one of her friends and began working with Anthony Tate. She released two mixtapes. I really love how inspirational her music is. She is a good role model for young women and never presents herself in a trashy manner. The song Above Water is off of her mixtape titled Everyday People. In this…

The Harlem Renaissance was a time of many changes like cultural, social, and modern art that occurred in Harlem during the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. “Literary, musical, theatrical, and visual arts,” were major elements of the Harlem Renaissance (Harlem Renaissance. Britannica.com, n.d., para.1). Literature, art, music, and entertainment were also a form of freedom. African Americans used these key elements to becoming equal in American society. African Americans soared with…