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    Gilbert “Gil” Scott Heron was an African-American poet and musician renowned for his spoken word on political and social issues in the United States. One of Heron’s most famous works was The Revolution will not be televised published in 1970 with his band group “Black & Blues”. The poem was not initially considered poetry instead it was considered a song‚ until its spoken word by Heron. During the 1970’s‚ President Nixon‚ a biased and unreasonable leader‚ had control of America. Many bills were passed

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    I was born a free African American on December 23‚ 1867. My parents Owen and Minerva and siblings Louvenia‚ Owen Jr.‚ Alexander‚ and James had formerly been enslaved. I grew up as ordinary as possible considering I was an African American living in a white peoples world. When I was only six years old my parents contracted yellow fever and passed away in 1872. After the death of my parents‚ I moved in with my sister‚ Louvenia‚ in Vicksburg to work as a housemaid. I was considered extremely poor and

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    have become object of study to many disciplines such as cultural Anthropology; literature and linguistics etc. These disciplines have taken kin interest in the relevance of proverbs. But the Philosophers ’ interest in proverbs‚ more specific‚ the African Philosophers - differs from that of other scholars. C. S. Momoh notes that we have it on Aristotle authority that “A proverb is a remnant from old philosophy‚ preserved amid countless destruction by reason of its brevity and fitness for use”2. The

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    African American Music

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    only restricted by this definition. Any moment that one tries to pinpoint something through a rhythm‚ it becomes a music. Many people believe that African Americans are some of the few people whose soul is expressed exclusively through music. Black American music represents their spirits‚ which started as the voice that was prohibited. Since Africans were brought to the United States as slaves‚ they lost their basic human rights due to their slaveholders fear of a slave rebellion. Therefore‚ slaves

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    anything in return? This was the life of African-Americans that lived during the slavery era; belonging to another human being brought about many constrictions‚ disruptions‚ frustrations‚ and of course pain to African-Americans. Fortunately‚ African-Americans were able to fight through all oppression and make it out of slavery and because of their bravery we as African-Americans today are endowed to a more opportune lifestyle. Allow me to explain how African-Americans progressed through slavery to

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    African American Theatre

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    Over the course of approximately one-hundred years there has been a discernible metamorphosis within the realm of African-American cinema. African-Americans have overcome the heavy weight of oppression in forms such as of politics‚ citizenship and most importantly equal human rights. One of the most evident forms that were withheld from African-Americans came in the structure of the performing arts; specifically film. The common population did not allow blacks to drink from the same water fountain

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    undertake the study of the African experience? -How did Africans preserve and affirm their way of life and use their identities as a means to resist enslavement? -What are some of the similarities and differences in practices of self-determination of Africans in the U.S. and their counterparts throughout the hemisphere? -How did Africans begin to conceptualize unity in thought and action beyond national boundaries in the face of European and American imperialism? -How did Africans make sense of and participate

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    African Sleeping Sickness Human African Trypanosomiasis‚ known as sleeping sickness‚ is a vector-borne parasitic disease. Trypanosoma which are the parasites are protozoa transmitted to humans by tsetse flies. Tsetse flies live in Africa‚ and they are found in vegetation by rivers and lakes‚ gallery-forests and vast stretches of wooded savannah. Sleeping sickness occurs only in sub-Saharan Africa‚ in regions where tsetse flies are endemic. There are many regions where tsetse flies are found‚ but

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    African Americans and Slavery in the Revolutionary period The American Revolution was a time of great turmoil for all men and women in the United States. Great debates came and went during this time; slavery and the freedom of black men being the main problems in these debates. Slaves were used for a great number of things during the American revolutionary period. The arrival of slavery to the American colonies began in the 1600s and started out in Virginia. As the years passed more and more African-Americans

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    has become a significant part of music and society is spirituals. Spirituals are religious folksongs created by Africans who were brought forcefully to South America as slaves to work on plantations‚ between the 1600s to the 1870s. Slaves were restricted from their freedom of expression and they faced hardships. To survive these times‚ slaves inclined towards music and the African culture gave birth to a new musical genre‚ spirituals. Since slaves were allowed

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