“Dark Girls” Documentary by Bill Duke and Channsin Berry Comes to the East Coast
• January 11, 2012 • 3 CommentsPosted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Film
Tags: African Americans, Apollo Theater, Appearances, Baltimore, Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Bill Duke, Bishop Eddie Long, Blacks, Channsin Berry, Children, Color Politics, Colorstruck, D. Channsin Berry, Dark Skin Prejudice, Documentary, Facebook, Film Documentary, Growing Up, Harlem, Light Skin Privilege, Love, Marriage, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, New York, New York City, One Night Only, Poughkeepsie, Poughkeepsie New York, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Showings, United States
Black Bluegrass Music: The Carolina Chocolate Drops, “Genuine Negro Jig”
• December 5, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in African American History, American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Cultural History, Education, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Love, Memoir, Music, Music Videos, People of Color, Race, Sexuality, Television, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Women
Tags: "Bonnie and Clyde", "Cornbread and Butterbeans", "Foggy Mountain Breakdown", "Hit 'Em Up Style", "Tain't Nothin' to Me", "The Beverly Hillbillies", African Americans, Antagonism, Apollo Theater, Asleep at the Wheel, Autoharp, Black Banjo: Then and Now, Black Women, Blacks, Blu Cantrell, Bluegrass, Broadway Musical, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Country Music, CW, Dolly Parton, Dom Flemons, Fiddler, Flatt and Scruggs, Genuine Negro Jig, Gospel Choir, Guitars, Hammer Dulcimers, Hank Williams, Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!), Jefferson Airplane, Joe Thompson, Johnny Cash, Jugs, Justin Robinson, k.d. lang, KSOL, Lesbians, Lower Class, Music, Nasal Twang, Opera, Papa John Creach, Patsy Cline, People of Color, Poet, Queen Latifah, Racism, Rhiannon Giddens, Slide Guitars, Something Else, Southern Whites, Telluride CO, The Apollo Theater, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Coasters, The Eighties, The Seventies, The South, Tom Waits, Willie Nelson