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Shall We Gather At The River: African-American Sacred Music from the Florida Folklife Collection
This disc highlights Florida's African American religious music traditions. The collection features both nationally recognized acts and previously unknown local artists, including the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Georgia Sea Island Singers, the Versiteers, and the Amigo Male Singers.
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The African Methodist Episcopalian Church’s Four Horsemen
Previously, I blogged about one of my intellectual and spiritual ancestors Henry McNeal Turner, an early and influential Bishop in the African Methodist Church. He joins four other great men as the…
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Happy (belated) Birthday Mahalia Jackson!!!
The best singer this green earth has ever seen died on January 27, 1972, at the age of 60. She is best known for being the most famous gospel sing ever, the Queen of Gospel they say. Her name was M…
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"Just like the cities staggered on the coastline
Living in a nation that just can't stand much more
Like the forest buried beneath the highway
Never had a chance to grow
Never had a chance to grow"

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In Indiana, The Last Remnants Of America's Free African-American Settlements
Lyles Station has been a black-owned farming community since the 1800s. A small number still farm, and their story is told at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African-American History and Culture.
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Black 400’er Edwin Harleston
Edwin Harleston is the scion of of an old middle class Charlestonian family, who despite being constrained by his duty to his family, still managed, to be accomplished enough to be described by W.E…
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Black folks and Soul
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5 Ways Integration Underdeveloped Black America
Posted by Atlanta Black Star
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July 27, 2016

5 Ways Integration Underdeveloped Black America

Issues & Views: The True Test
Should coercive government laws either force us to associate with people we choose to disregard, or prevent us from association?
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Florida Ruffin Ridley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Florida Ruffin Ridley (January 29, 1861 – February 25, 1943) was an African-American civil rights activist, suffragist, teacher, writer, and editor from Boston, Massachusetts. She was one of the first black public schoolteachers in Boston, and edited the Woman's Era, the country's first newspaper pu...
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In West Medford, a historically black community at a crossroads - The Boston Globe
West Medford’s The Ville is a tightly woven African-American community that thrived along the Mystic River, a neighborhood forged by segregation that grew, over the 20th century, into a unique enclave of relative tranquillity, high ambition, and middle-class values. The distinctive quarter now finds...
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Issues & Views: Black pride and business
The online edition of Issues & Views. The hard copy edition of this newsletter was founded in 1985 by black Americans who advocate self-help and business enterprise and the protection of constitutional rights. It is a forum for dissidents, conservatives, and plain old mavericks--all those who are co...
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Louis Armstrong and His All Stars in Africa
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May 28, 2016

60 years ago this week, back in 1956:
Louis Armstrong and his band ignite a dance party in Africa.
Special thanks to Ricky Riccardi for sharing this rare footage.

Excellent and interesting comments on Negro culture and the arts.

Later With Bob Costas (1991) - Wynton Marsalis
In 1991, Wynton joined Bob Costas on his set of "Later." This interview was in support of Wynton's "Majesty of the Blues" press tour, however it turned into ...
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