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African Americans have been the victims of oppression, discrimination and persecution throughout American history, with an impact on African-American innovation according to a 2014 study by economist Lisa D. Cook, which linked violence towards African Americans and lack of legal protections over the period from 1870 to 1940 with lowered innovation. [1]
Archive.org Collection of George W. Johnson's music four different (1898–1902) recordings of The Laughing Song and one each of The Laughing Coon and The Whistling Song. Salem, James M., "African American Songwriters and Performers in the Coon Song Era: Black Innovation and American Popular Music", The Columbia Journal of American Studies (CJAS).
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 ...
Here are five early Black innovators whose contributions reshaped the agricultural landscape: Henry Blair (1807-1860) Only the second Black man to be awarded a U.S. patent (Thomas L. Jennings, who ...
Keith Lee, Sha’Carri Richardson, Latto and Angel Reese are among the Black stars featured on this year’s “30 Under 30” […] The post Meet the Black brilliance on Forbes’ 2024 ’30 ...
This is a list of notable African-American singers that gives their year of birth and music genres with which they ... Black Rob: Hip hop; Paul Robeson (1898–1976 ...
The achievements of George Washington Carver, the 19th century scientist credited with hundreds of inventions, including 300 uses for peanuts, have landed him in American history textbooks. Among ...
He echoed the same sentiments in the 2015 elections by releasing a remix to the song "Politics Na Big Business" featuring Tuface Idiibia and Sound Sultan through his management company, Chocolate City. Kuti's song "Make We Remember" calls on people to remember the words of his father and "great black people", who fought for the emancipation of ...