'Books - where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas.'

#poetry #HarlemRenaissance

Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey

Aaron Douglas, 'Aspiration' (1936)

#art #black #African #American #AfricanAmerican #AfroAmerican #US #USA #emancipation #Harlem #HarlemRenaissance
#painting

"Aspiration," created for the Texas Centennial of 1936, conveys the artist’s perception of a link between African/Egyptian and African American cultures—rejecting European claims to Egypt’s historical legacy.

https://www.famsf.org/artworks/aspiration

https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/social-structures/teaching-guide-douglass-aspiration/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Douglas_(artist)

Hostel finds - somebody paid €32 for The Harlem Renaissance originally!

#Books #sciencefiction #HarlemRenaissance #JGBallard #blackhistory

Go Slow

Go slow, they say-
while the bite
Of the dog is fast.
Go slow, I hear-
While they tell me
You can't eat here!
You can't live here!
You can't work here!
Don't Demonstrate! Wait!-
While they lock the gate.
Am I supposed to be God,
Or an angel with wings
And a halo on my head
While jobless I starve to dead?
Am I supposed to forgive
And meekly live
Going slow, slow, slow,
Slow, slow, slow,
Slow, slow,
Slow,
Slow,
Slow?
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
#LangstonHughes #HarlemRenaissance #BlackLiterature

Today in History April 27, 1882: Jessie Redmon Fauset was born. She was an African-American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her emphasis on portraying an accurate image of African-American life and history inspired literature of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. In her fiction, she created black characters who were working professionals. This was inconceivable to white Americans at the time. Her stories dealt with themes like racial discrimination, "passing", and feminism. From 1919 to 1926, she was literary editor of The Crisis, a NAACP magazine.

#LaborHistory #WorkingClass #naacp #AfricanAmerican #feminism #racism #literary #novel #poetry #fiction #discrimination #HarlemRenaissance #BlackMastadon

http://feromoon.info/news/13647-february-27-angelina-weld-grimke-1880-1958
FEBRUARY 27: Angelina Weld Grimké (1880-1958)
#BHM #WLW #AngelinaWeldGrimké #Black #Lesbians #HarlemRenaissance

RT @PennamitePLR
started @Wikipedia article on writer, performer Ottie Beatrice Graham (1901-1944): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottie_Beatrice_Graham @WikiWomenInRed @HowardUAlumni @DeltaNational #HarlemRenaissance #BlackHistoryMonth #blackhistorymonth2023

RT @PennamitePLR
started @Wikipedia article on US poet, journalist, Blanche Taylor Dickinson (1896-1972): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Taylor_Dickinson @WikiWomenInRed @thecrisismag #BlackHistoryMonth #blackhistorymonth2023 #HarlemRenaissance @KYWomenWriters @CarnegieCenter

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#BitterRoot #Alltagsrassismus #ChuckBrown #Comic #Comicbook #Comicbuch #Comics #DavidFWalker #Harlem #HarlemRenaissance #Jinoo #Jinzondo #Lesen #Meinung #Review #Rezension #SanfordGreene #Test #Testbericht #Wertung

https://vincisblog.com/comic-bitter-root-2/

Harlem Renaissance blues singer, pianist, and entertainer Gladys Bentley (1907-1960) openly flouted the gender and sexuality constraints of the 1920s and 30s. The star performer at Harry Hansberry’s Clam House in the 1920s and the Ubangi Club in the early 1930s, she was famous for performing in male drag and singing raunchy songs in a deep, growling voice about her female lovers while flirting with women in the audience. #BlackFriday #LGBTQ #HarlemRenaissance

Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston) – A #HarlemRenaissance classic, it follows a #black woman in early 20th-century #Florida as she searches for independence outside of others’ expectations.

#Booktoot #Bookstodon #Books

Aaron Douglas - dusktjacket art for ThAaron Douglas - dustjacket art for The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes, 1926e Weary Blues by Langston Hughes, 1926 #AaronDouglas #Langston Hughes #HarlemRenaissance #Books #Dustjacket #Art #Literature

@drhettie oooh this sounds so good!
“Claiming a Space, a new in-depth #biography of the influential #author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about #race, #gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the #19thcentury . Directed by #TracyHeatherStrain , produced by #RandallMacLowry and executive #produced by #CameoGeorge , the #film premieres on #american EXPERIENCE on Tuesday, January 17, 9:00-11:00 p.m. ET (check local listings) on PBS, PBS.org and the #PBS Video app.
Raised in the small all-Black #Florida town of #Eatonville , #zoranealehurston studied at #howarduniversity before arriving in #newyork in #1925 . She would soon become a key figure of the #HarlemRenaissance , best remembered for her novel #TheirEyesWereWatchingGod .”
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#history #memoir #books #author #authors #americanauthors #blackauthors #womenauthors #womeninliterature #womenslit #WomenInHistory
#americanhistory #documentary #historian #civilwar #civilization #histoire #activists #FilmProduction #Harlem #americanwriters

Jones is one of my favorite artists of all times. I’ve gone out of my way to see exhibits of her work. Every one of her eras/phases effects me & I appreciate every one individually and contextually. My bet on what’s going on—cat(s) were one of her emotional supports. The picture is posed, the closeness is real. The work she did was amazing & could be very emotionally heavy…draining https://mvmagazine.com/news/2014/11/11/against-all-odds #HarlemRenaissance #BlackWomenArtists #LoïsMailouJones #Histodons #CatsOfMastodon

Jones is one of my favorite artists of all times. I’ve gone out of my way to see exhibits of her work. Every one of her eras/phases effects me & I appreciate every one individually and contextually. My bet on what’s going on—cat(s) were one of her emotional supports. The picture is posed, the closeness is real. The work she did was amazing & could be very emotionally heavy…draining https://mvmagazine.com/news/2014/11/11/against-all-odds #HarlemRenaissance #BlackWomenArtists #LoïsMailouJones #Histodons #CatsOfMastodon

One of my favorite discoveries while contributing to #StandardEbooks is the poem "The Word of an Engineer" by James Weldon Johnson. Here's a snippet that's as relevant as ever since Johnson wrote it almost a hundred years ago...

And so we ride
Over land and tide,
Without a thought of fear⁠—
Man never had
The faith in God
That he has in an engineer!

#HarlemRenaissance #Poetry #Literature

Discovering the #poetry of the women authors of the #HarlemRenaissance, and it's *amazing*! *They* are amazing!

Discovering the #poetry of the women authors of the #HarlemRenaissance, and it's *amazing*! *They* are amazing!

I just realized I haven’t done an intro yet. Sorry, I just kind of launch into things and forget that kind of stuff sometimes. I’m a father and husband from the Midwest. I’m very into #Comics #Film #Gaming #tabletopgames #blackhistory specifically #WW1 and #HarlemRenaissance I’ll likely share a lot of funny things my kids say and various pics and videos of whatever my current hyperfixations are. #introductionpost #intro #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #GeriatricMillenial #ActuallyAutistic

Langston Hughes had a pet monkey he’d gotten on his travels around the Horn of Africa. If I remember right, the monkey’s name was something like “Jimbo.” His mama didn’t like it. His step dad thought it was cool and took him to the local pool hall a few times in order to show off. One day the monkey shit on a pool table. Hughes had to get rid of the monkey after that.

True story

#blackhistory #blackmastodon #themoreyouknow #history #literature #HarlemRenaissance