Living between classical and American folk music is the Negro spiritual genre. Fathers of this synergy in sound include Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the noted contributor incorporated Negro spirituals in composition as he toured around the world at the age of 22.
What time is it? It’s time to re-engage the fierce urgency of now and continue pressing forward on the issues of the day. It is time to stay involved, focused, and intentional in preventing voter suppression. It is time for truth telling about the heinous and abominable side of American democracy. We have no time to relax.
November 14: African American Scholar Booker T. Washington, Died, 1915
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Booker T. Washington delivered an influential speech that came to be known as the “Atlanta Compromise,” 1895
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This year, as that date approached, I was listening to one of my all-time favorites, Luther Vandross’s “A House Is Not A Home,” when the question popped into my head: Do I consider America to be my home, or just my house?
On this day in 1895, Booker T. Washington delivered an influential speech that came to be known as the “Atlanta Compromise.”
Charlotte Morris has served as Tuskegee’s president on an interim basis since Brian Johnson’s removal last year, but McNair is the first woman to hold the job on a permanent basis.
May 31, 1881 – Booker T. Washington was recommended by General Armstrong for the principalship of the newly planned Tuskegee Institute.
This week’s facts of Black History.