Andre says: "We took her pain and put it on a platform to be the communicator for all that generation of women who grew up in the Eighties in a single parent decade, with crack being the main drug - which took whole households out." Her music has had a massive influence. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child says: "I think of Mary J Blige as the Aretha Franklin of our generation because she's got so much soul." Producer and former Fugees, Wyclef Jean discusses
Marilyn Monroe committed suicide very young, but was it her rough child and adult hood that led her to this? Marilyn had a long and rough journey to get to Hollywood. It was always her dream, and everything started in the Los Angeles General Hospital where she was born. On June 1st, 1926 Gladys’, Marilyn Monroe’s mother, went into labor and gave birth to the beautiful Norma Jean Morteson. Her father, Edward Morteson abandoned her family.
Many noted that “the jazz of The Jazz Age was black Americans’ most powerful influence on Americans” (Baughman). Musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Martin, Bessie Smith, and Duke Ellington used their extraordinary to talent to travel the world with their music in order to show the world their pride in their African American culture. Prominent authors such as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Debuois, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale used this era as an advantage to publish novels, short stories, and poems about their history. In addition to being a brilliant author, he was also the founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Aileen Wournos: Woman Serial Killer Leilani Daniels AP Psychology Background: Born Aileen Carol Pittman on February 29, 1956 in Rochester, Michigan. Wuornos' childhood was a troubled one. She and her brother were taken in by their grandmother when she was four years old after her father, who is claimed to be a schizophrenic and committed sex crimes with younger girls, hanged himself in prison. Their mother abandoned them in 1960. Her grandfather was an alcoholic and she had claimed he abused her.
Langston Hughes Research Langston Hughes (1902-1967) is one of the most influential African-American writers of the 20th century. His poetry represented a significant chapter in American literature. He always wrote about the current events of what is happening to African-Americans in his time. It is because of his original poetry that engraved his name forever in not only African American history, but in American Literature as well. “Through his long career as a professional writer, Hughes remained true to the African American heritage he celebrated in his writings, which were frankly ”racial in theme and treatment, derived from the life I know” (1131 Meyer) .
Chopin, Kate (1851-1904). Writer. Born in St. Louis, Mo. Regular contributor of feminist short stories to literary journals. Her novel `The Awakening' (1899) shocked many people with its portrayal of a young woman's sexual and artistic longings.
Charles S. Johnson's Opportunity magazine became the leading voice of black culture, and W.E.B. DuBois's journal, The Crisis, with Jessie Redmon Fauset as its literary editor, launched the literary careers of such writers as Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen (Wintz, Cary D. 1988). Civil Rights Movement The success of African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance helped lay the foundation for the post-World War II phase of the Civil Rights Movement. Moreover, many black artists who rose to creative maturity afterward were inspired by this literary movement. Activists such as Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X followed some of the principles of people like Marcus Garvey and Hubert Harrison.
Harlem Renaissance Shyanna Fanning Humanities 112 Professor Pistone November 23, 2014 During the 1920’s, many African Americans migrated from the economically depressed South to the Industrial North to start a new life. With the large amount of migration occurring, African Americans now had the freedom to express their culture through art, music, poetry and literature. This movement is now known as the Harlem Renaissance. Two influential poets during the Harlem Renaissance were Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. These two African American poets helped inspire other African America individuals to express their culture during the Harlem Renaissance.
Lorraine Hansberry was an African American female author and this was her most well-know title. The play Sun ran for nineteen months and won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. She was the youngest American and the first Black to do so (Ingle 184)). The play is set in the same area which was the South Side of Chicago, Washington Park Subdivision. Lorraine Hansberry died from pancreatic cancer at the very young of 34 (“Voices of the Gap: Lorraine
The Crisis Magazine helped blacks have their literature published for the people to read. “As African American journals such as W.E.B. Du Bois’s Crisis and Opportunity, edited by Charles S. Johnson, began to flourish, it became possible for African American writers to publish in a style that suited their tastes.” (The Harlem Renaissance Gale Group 1). It was a great key to get their work recognized. People were beginning to see how much the black community can contribute.