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This list of African-American inventors and scientists documents many of the African Americans who have invented a multitude of items or made discoveries in the course of their lives. These have ranged from practical everyday devices to applications and scientific discoveries in diverse fields, including physics, biology, math, and medicine.
According to The Political economy of Black Music By Norman Kelley,"Black music exists in a neo-colonial relationship with the $12 billion music industry, which consist of six record companies." African-American entrepreneurs embraced record stores as key vehicles for economic empowerment and critical public spaces for black consumers at a time ...
Karyn White (pictured in 2011) reached number one in 1989 with "Superwoman" and "Love Saw It".. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1989 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in African American–oriented genres; the chart's name has changed over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since 2005. [1]
Each year, a notable number of Black innovators blazing a trail in their respective industries shine among the list’s 600 total honorees. Over the years, the list has celebrated high-profile ...
The use of songs as a narrative and a tool to convey an important message continued into the 20th century with Black Americans using their voices to help their fight for freedom and equality.
Louis Armstrong George Benson Chuck Berry James Brown Ray Charles Nat King Cole John Coltrane Sam Cooke Miles Davis Sammy Davis Jr. Fats Domino Dennis Edwards Duke Ellington Art Farmer Ella Fitzgerald Roberta Flack Aretha Franklin Marvin Gaye Dizzy Gillespie Buddy Guy Isaac Hayes Jimi Hendrix Gil Scott-Heron Billie Holiday John Lee Hooker Whitney Houston Michael Jackson Etta James Rick James ...
OPINION: With Black Music Month coming to a close, theGrio talks about how Black music documentaries have been essential tools to reveal the buried truth about innovative Black artists and events.
The song "Dat's How Da Music Do Ya" quoted the "Buddy Bolden Blues". A three-channel video installation, "Precarity" , was created by the British experimental filmmaker John Akomfrah in 2017 as a commissioned piece for the Ogden Museum and the Nasher Museum , exploring themes related to the life of Buddy Bolden.