During the 1960s black playwright, LeRoi Jones, founded the Black Arts Movement to inspire art that was by, for, and about black people. ... Looking back to American history Whites has treated Blacks very brutally. ... So they come up with a big lie: racism, that blacks are not as good as whites, that blacks are screwed up, that blacks are born bad. ... He kept asking her if she was an actress, and now he sees that she is serious. ... This flaw mainly refers to the white man's tyranny against black. ...

• Word Count: 1234
• Approx Pages: 5

He goes so far as to call it "a backhanded slap in the face to black Americans." ... So, as argued, racism is encouraged and blacks are portrayed as deviant law officials. ... Halle Berry won best actress for her performance in Monster's Ball as a woman who begins dating a white man who was indirectly responsible for her husband's death. ... Altogether, these Oscars amount to a denigration of blacks, and gratification to the white movie going public in seeing blacks in roles impossible to respect. ... What those who preach about unfairness toward blacks ignore is that there are blac...

• Word Count: 553
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Upon the Cotton Blossom were white and black people living side by side. ... We see in most of the scenes how the blacks would work in the background and the whites would play and socialize in the front. ... We see this when Julie, the leading actress, is not allowed to perform on the showboat because it is discovered she has " Nigger blood" in her. ... Queenie displayed a great deal of untapped talent when she showed Captain Andy how to sell tickets to the blacks. ... When Joe sings "ole Man River", he tells how hard labor is what blacks of that time were expected to do. ...

• Word Count: 779
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Setting out to write about black Americans, Hughes created a body of work-poetry, fiction, journalism, essays, plays, and song lyrics. While decrying racism and the inequities it created for blacks and other minorities, Hughes called for cooperation among all races. ... A lover of books and plays, she had once dreamed of becoming a professional actress. ... Paris at that time was home to an array of black American musicians and entertainers. ... In 1926 Hughes's first book, The Weary Blues, was published to a chorus of praise from black and white reviewers alike. ...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Maya Angelou conquer the notion of rebellion from three specific and popular subject positions: that of a woman, a black, and a black woman. She is a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director. ... She always carries herself as a strong black woman. ... He is saying that the same two groups, black and white, come together at some occasions. ... He continues to say that there are many blacks serving time in jail. ...

• Word Count: 1141
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

" This quote as directed by the actress Anna Deavere Smith has a lot of meaning in it. ... It is not the first time Bank of America has preferred whites over blacks it has been previously reported that they have preferred whites over blacks during the years of 1993, between 2002 and 2005, and again this past year. ...

• Word Count: 895
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They dealt with Black life from a Black perspective. ... By 1920, black Harlem had extended from 130th to 145th Street with a population of about 73,000 b;acls. 66.9 percent of Manhattan's blacks. ... Blacks developed a new consciousness. The deterioration of the social position of blacks in American Society caused blacks to turn to each other and develop the ideas of self-help and black pride. ... Musicals and plays about blacks became popular as well. ...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

African American actress, Regina King on Facebook writes why she feels people should date outside of their race: It's more common here on the West Coast. I think in New York, you find more Black women that date outside of their race. ... I think Black women need to open up. A lot of Black women still carry a lot of pain when they see Black men with women who aren't Black and that's really unfortunate that that could make us so upset. ... A lot of people think I'm Hispanic, I've dated black guys, white guys, Hispanics. ...

• Word Count: 1895
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate