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A Universal Renaissance Man James Mercer Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, to school teacher Carrie (Caroline) Mercer Langston and James Nathaniel Hughes. Hughes’ father left his family, and later divorced Carrie moving to Cuba, and then Mexico trying to escape the racism in the United States. Since his mom traveled looking for work, young Langston was being raised by his maternal grandmother, Mary Patterson Langston in Lawrence, Kansas. She told him stories of abolitionist

the nineteenth century, typically expressed sorrow and was influenced by the struggles of the previous generations of African Americans. “Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other night by the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway, he did a lazy sway.” From the two examples you can see that Hughes’ poem is much more sophisticated and that it has a lot more

The Harlem Renaissance was a period of ethnic rebirth in the streets of Harlem, New York that changed the way people viewed black culture and their art. During the Great Migration, hundreds of African Americans packed their bags and moved north in search of a better life. There, they were given the chance to express themselves through their music and literature. New artists, musicians, and writers emerged from the city. Musicians like Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday performed in clubs, showcasing

“We hit 110th Street and started rolling up Lenox Avenue… I'd first heard about Sonny's trouble, filled with a hidden menace which was its very breath of life.” (73). He described Harlem of containing the inherent menace as its life, linking it to a place of horror to both Sonny and the narrator. It

Langston Hughes is arguably one of the best known American writers of the twentieth century. He played an important influential part in the Harlem Renaissance, his poetry and other literary works helped pave way to a new wave of African American culture and literature. Hughes had a wide variety of works, he was much more than just a poet; he was a short-story writer, novelist, and playwright (Brucker). He was also very involved in the Black Arts Movement, and had works published in “The Crisis” the

Women of the Harlem Renaissance Novels: The Stark Differences Between The Women of Passing and Home to Harlem In the novels Home to Harlem and Passing, the representation of women characters is very different. In terms of personality, social class, and relationships with other characters, the women characters in both novels are distinctive from each other in many ways. The middle-class women of Passing provides insight to the drama of “passing” as white, while the women of Home to Harlem provides

According to Holger Henke in his The West Indian Americans, Jamaican Rex Nettleford was correct when he said, “’dance was a primary instrument of survival’.” As such a vital part of cultural traditions, dance plays and integral role in the history culture. Three of the most influential styles of dance in the Caribbean are the Rumba, The Merengue, and the Salsa. The word Rumba is defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary as “a ballroom dance of Haitian and Dominican origin in 2/4 time in which one

unusual materials, expressionist color, abstracted forms, flattened shapes and spaces, and shifts in perspective and scale—all the while maintaining focus on the human narrative being told within a single city block” (Met Museum). The block depicts Lenox Avenue between 132nd and 113rd street, in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. The placement or arrangement of the visual elements in this collage is structured by what we usually see on a normal city block. This includes apartments, store fronts, and

New York was once called the “melting pot.” Why? Many from different places with different races and religions traveled to New York to try and camouflage in with others. In order to do so, it required drastic changes. It could have meant changing their name, hiding their accent, adapting to new food or new music. As you may see, for one to be a New Yorker, they were to melt their traits into the New York culture for them to be equivalent to others. Now days, New York attracts people worldwide like

The Father’s Twine Around sometime in June of 1963 the father left the temple for personal reasons believed to be due to income or to the shifting parties of the NOI in-house discontent (The Father Allah was noted to have been suspended several times for his actions). Nevertheless he and a few Muslims that understood the problem of the temple and the reality of Allah’s vision took to the streets. He decided to focus his attention on the youths who could not be reached by local religious organizations