The short stories "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "Sonny's Blues" are different in many respects. ... In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator has been brought to a rented house by her husband, a physician. ... While the wife in this story likes the house, she is not at all happy with the large room at the top of the house, which is the one that her husband insists that she use. ... In "Sonny's Blues," the narrator is Sonny's older brother, an educated black man who has chosen a "proper" career as a schoolteacher, trying to achieve tha...

• Word Count: 1543
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The short stories "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "Sonny's Blues" are different in many respects. ... In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator has been brought to a rented house by her husband, a physician. ... While the wife in this story likes the house, she is not at all happy with the large room at the top of the house, which is the one that her husband insists that she use. ... In "Sonny's Blues," the narrator is Sonny's older brother, an educated black man who has chosen a "proper" career as a schoolteacher, trying to achieve tha...

• Word Count: 1543
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

James Arthur Baldwin Life James Arthur Baldwin was born the first of nine children during 1924 in Harlem. His father, David, was a clergyman and a factory worker, and was the source of all of James Baldwin's fears. Baldwin's mother, Berdis, was...

• Word Count: 1677
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The future "Lady Day" first heard the music of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith on a Victrola at Alice Dean's, the Baltimore "house of ill repute" where she ran errands and scrubbed floors as a young girl. ... Hughes's poetry absorbed the rhythms of blues and jazz and the dialect of African American speech that he heard around him. ... In 1926 Hughes published his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, about Harlem life. ... During the Harlem Renaissance, intellectual dialogue, literary and artistic creation, blues and jazz, dance and musical theater came together and flowered as ne...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Hip-Hops roots go far beyond its emergence at 1520 Sedwick Avenue, then introduced by the infamous DJ Kool Herc, a classic story about the first instance of breaking and rapping over a beat inside a garage house party in the Bronx. ... Much of hip hops quintessence is essentially black in that it pulls from numerous forms of black music, i.e. blues, jazz, gospel, rhythm & blues and soul, each of these genres having origins in the black struggle. ...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One of the major accomplishments of the Renaissance was to "push open the door to mainstream white periodicals and publishing houses." ... Some common themes and aims that were used in the writings included alienation, marginality, the use of folk material, the use of the blues tradition, the problems of writing for an elite audience, advancement of the black race, and exploration of self-identity. ...

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Underground Railroad is just a name of a series of secret network safe houses where Black runaway slaves could hide until they could be helped so that they could be free in Canada. ... She was fearless, even with at $40,000 bounty on her head she traveled deep into the United States to save slaves and bring them back to her safe house in St. ... The Eldon district in Saskatchewan was the place that housed the most Black families and many of them arrived in 1909. ...

• Word Count: 2905
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• Grade Level: High School

Gaines influences came from the inspirations in music school. ( Callahan 100) From growing up he loved to listen to Jazz, Folk, Blues, and Spiritual music. ... In 1978 he wrote In My Father's House about the Double life of a minister and civil rights leader. ... In My Father's House, Gaines focuses on a theme which appears the alienation between fathers and sons. ...

• Word Count: 1754
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• Grade Level: High School

Van Vechten recommended Langston Hughes's work to Knopf that which is a New York publishing house, Knopf Published Hughes' s first volume of poems, the Weary Blues, in 1920, and many other Hughes's works later. ...

• Word Count: 1512
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Also with Diane di Prima he founded, in 1961 the American Theater for Poets, an experimental dramatic troupe which read the works of various poets and dramatist in local coffee houses. ... His poetry from that period contains such phrases as, "I got the extermination blues, jewboys."...

• Word Count: 2297
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Berkman, Ronald Opening the Gates: The Rise of the Prisoners" Movement. Lexington Books: Lexington, Mass, 1979. Bowker, Lee H. Prisoner Subcultures. Lexington Books: Lexington Mass, 1977. ...

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February is Black History Month A full appreciation of the celebration of Black History Month requires a review and a reassessment of the social and academic climate that prevailed in the Western world, and especially in North America before 1926 when Black History Month was established. It is important to recall that between 1619 and 1926, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were classified as a race that had not made any contribution to human civilization. Within the public and private sector, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were continually dehum...

• Word Count: 3305
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School