Thursday, February 13, 2014

The Negro in literature and art in the United States (1918)



Author: Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, 1882-1939
Subject: African American authors; African American artists; African American musicians; American literature -- African American authors History and criticism
Publisher: New York, Duffield & Company
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: b2723368
Digitizing sponsor: MSN
Book contributor: New York Public Library
Collection: newyorkpubliclibrary; americana

The Negro genius.--Phillis Wheatley.--Paul Laurence Dunbar.--Charles W. Chesnutt.--W.E. Burghardt Du Bois.--William Stanley Braithwaite.--Other writers.--Orators: Douglass and Washington.--The stage.--Painters: Henry O. Tanner.--Sculptors: Meta Warrick Fuller.--Music--Appendix: The Negro in American action. Study of bibliography (p. 160-174)

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Wings for This Man (1945) Tuskeegee Airmen






Department of the Army
Army Air Forces Special Film Project Number 151

Wings for This Man
AVA08663VNB1, 1945

Wings for this Man is a propaganda film produced in 1945 by the U.S. Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first unit of African-American pilots in the US military.

Narrated by Ronald Reagan.


Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_for_This_Man


This movie is part of the collection: FedFlix

Producer: Department of the Army
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: army.mil; public.resource.org
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Echoes of Africville: The struggle to preserve St. Pat's-Alexandra School in Halifax | rabble.ca

Echoes of Africville: The struggle to preserve St. Pat's-Alexandra School in Halifax | rabble.ca


Rev. Rhonda Britton of Cornwallis Street Baptist Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia, talks about the struggle to preserve the closed St. Patrick's-Alexandra school building as a community space in the face of an indifferent, even hostile, city administration. 

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Patti Labelle - I'll Stand By You.



Patti sings the words that all our young Black folks need to hear.
Spread The Love My People.