This weekend begins the December holiday season. Dance seems to dominate the array of arts offered throughout the city. We have three dance companies performing downtown, midtown and uptown and we continue to celebrate the genius of a twentieth century master. Here are a few of the many events taking place around the city and in our community. Continue reading
A new novel by Harlem Renaissance author Claude McKay, titled “Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem,” was discovered by a Columbia University graduate student and recently declared to be authentic. Continue reading
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Tagged Claude McKay, Columbia University, Curtis Martin, Drew Gilpin Faust, Francisco Goldman, Great Depression, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, Henry Louis Gates, Junot Diaz, New York Times, Salman Rushdie, Samuel Roth
Maya Angelou once said, “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” Are their changes you need to make? Continue reading
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Tagged Health, Harlem, Maya Angelou, New York City, Harlem Renaissance, James Baldwin, Henry Louis Gates, New Year, Claude McKay, Steve Pavlina, Belize, Idea, Emotion, Time perception, Goal setting, Religious habit, Have Your Own Personal Renaissance
On view until December 1, 2012
Gordon Parks: 100 Moments celebrates the centennial of a photographer who transformed the visual story of America with his ever-questioning lens, highlighting-in particular-the significance of Parks’s photographs from the early 1940s. Continue reading
Dr. Henry Louis Gates is a foremost authority on Black history in America and the host of a TV program called “Finding Your Roots” where he does a thorough breakdown of celebrities’ (mostly African-America) family tree to give them more information about where they’re really from. Continue reading
We love this series from Henry Louis Gates Jr., “The Image of the Black in Western Art,” a perfect pick for your Black History Month reading:
A fascinating story of the changing image of Africa’s people in Western art. The images are simply extraordinary and the scholarship inspiring. Anyone who cares about Western art or about Africa and her diaspora ought to know these magnificent volumes.
–Kwame Anthony Appiah Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, Dominique de Menil, Henry Louis Gates, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
“…no one belongs to the black community anymore.”
Writer, Greg Thomas Recommended:
Raymond Arsenault, The Great Unraveling, NYTimes says: Robinson tells us at the outset, live and work in a privileged world of wealth and power. Despite the color of their skin, they do not belong to the black community. Fair enough, but Robinson does not stop there. Over the next 200 pages, he demonstrates rather convincingly that no one belongs to the black community anymore. The race-based community that was a fixture of American life for generations — Continue reading
An outstanding new book pick by HW from Henry Louis Gates:
“Mapping the contested concept of culture in diasporic, post-colonial and multicultural spaces, Henry Louis Gates Jr. conveys far-reaching insights in a piquant style that never fails to stimulate and provoke. What results is a critical cosmopolitanism that puts him at the heart of humanist inquiry in an era of global change.” – Kobena Mercer, author Welcome to the Jungle
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The black scholar and the white police sergeant who arrested him agreed to disagree and promised to talk again, a gracious conclusion to the first round of an eye-opening dialogue on race that allows President Barack Obama to get back to selling his health care plan to skeptical Americans.
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Tagged Barack Obama, Cambridge home, Henry Louis Gates, police Sgt. Joseph Crowley, Rose Garden
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This booking photo released by the Cambridge, Mass., Police Dept., shows Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who was arrested while trying to force open the locked front door of his home near Harvard University Thursday, July 16, 2009. Continue reading
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