Arts, Sports and Entertainment – African American

African-American Interest 2018: Golden Globe Awards, Oprah Winfrey's Speech https://www.goldenglobes.com/articles/your-truth-most-powerful-tool-oprahs-globes-speech-full

Transcript of Oprah Winfrey's 2018 acceptance speech (Time's Up) and post-speech interview. 

African American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 

http://library.brown.edu/cds/sheetmusic/afam/index.html

A Brown University collection of ballads, love songs, military tunes, minstrel music, ragtime classics, spirituals, and other popular songs, digitized by the Library of Congress. "Particularly significant in this collection are the visual depictions of African Americans which provide much information about racial attitudes over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."

Afrocentric Voices in Classical Music  

http://afrovoices.com

Learn about the contributions of such luminaries as Kathleen Battle,  H.T. Burleigh, and Leontyne Price, and enjoy exploring the suggested links to a wide range of genres.

Archives of African American Music and Culture

https://aaamc.indiana.edu

Links to blues, classical, gospel, jazz, r&b, rap, rock, soul, composers, music education, radio stations, and more.

BET.com

http://www.bet.com

Continuously updated news and entertainment, with channels for careers, health, home, lifestyles, money, and technology.

Blackflix.com 

http://www.blackflix.com

African American movie stars, news, reviews, interviews, music notes, industry business, links, and other popular features.

Free to Dance 

http://www.thirteen.org/freetodance

Chronicle of African American dance, with marvelous biographies and probing commentaries.

Jazz History: A Great Day in Harlem 

http://www.harlem.org

"Explore jazz history through one photograph" and find information by instrument, historic event, or artist.

Lift Every Voice and Sing  

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/lift-every-voice-and-sing

Written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's birthday, this poem was set to music by J. Rosamond Johnson and was referred to by generations as "The Negro National Anthem." The Academy of American Poets site gives texts of other Johnson poems as well as biographical and critical material.

MelaNet Kwanzaa Information Center 

http://www.melanet.com/kwanzaa/whatis.html

"While Kwanzaa is a seasonal event, the seven principles...are intended to be a year-round way of life."

National Museum of African Art

http://africa.si.edu/collections/start

A searchable database of the collections.

Negro Baseball League  

https://www.mlb.com/history/negro-leagues

Art, history, teams, players, and links to additional resources. See also the Negro League Baseball Museum.

PBS-JAZZ, A Film by Ken Burns  

http://www.pbs.org/jazz

Enhancing the television documentary on the history of jazz, this site includes biographies, links, the special situation of women in jazz, live jazz venues, etc.

Vibe Magazine Online  

http://www.vibe.com

Cool site of contemporary music, movies, comics, and other entertainment.

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