Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
(also stylized in uppercase [1] [2]) is a performance/variety television program that showcased African American music, dance and literature in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [3] It was produced by New York City public television station WNDT (later rebranded as WNET during its run), and distributed by NET and its successor PBS.
During the peak of the black power movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, many African Americans adopted "Afro" hairstyles, African clothes, or African names (such as Stokely Carmichael, the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who popularized the phrase "black power" and later changed his name to Kwame Ture) to ...
Jailhouse rock is a name used to describe a collection of fighting styles that were practiced or developed within black urban communities in the 1960s and 1970s. [1] [3]The many different manifestations of JHR share a commonality in blending western boxing with other stylised martial arts techniques. [4]
The Organization of Black American Culture (OBA-C) (pronounced Oh-bah-see [1]) was conceived during the era of the Civil Rights Movement by Hoyt W. Fuller as a collective of African-American writers, artists, historians, educators, intellectuals, community activists, and others.
The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was an African-American-led art movement that was active during the 1960s and 1970s. [3] Through activism and art, BAM created new cultural institutions and conveyed a message of black pride. [4] The movement expanded from the accomplishments of artists of the Harlem Renaissance.
While the Black Is Beautiful movement started in the 1960s, the fight for equal rights and a positive perception of the African-American body started much earlier in American history. This movement took form because the media and society as a whole had a negative perception of the African-American body as being only suitable for slave status. [8]
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 30: Lupita Nyong’o (L) attends the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Red Carpet Screening at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on ...
The Cry of Jazz is a 1959 documentary film by Edward O. Bland that connects jazz to African American history. [1] It uses footage of Chicago's black neighborhoods, performances by Sun Ra, John Gilmore, and Julian Priester and the music of Sun Ra and Paul Severson interspersed with scenes of musicians and intellectuals, both black and white, conversing at a jazz club.