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Today’s blog was written by Dr. Tina L. Ligon, Supervisory Archivist in Augmented Processing at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland
Cover photo: A Great Day in Hip Hop, Harlem, New York, by Gordon Parks, 1998
This year, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of Hip Hop. Rap, a genre of popular music rooted in funk, disco, and soul that encompasses the cultures of Black and Brown people is one part of Hip Hop culture. It tells the stories of joy, sorrow, love, hate, success, struggle, pleasure, and pain. With its beginnings in New York City, the key foundation of Hip Hop (which includes DJing, emceeing, breakdancing, and graffiti art) have spread across the country and the world, and have influenced all aspects of everyday life. Elements of Hip Hop are found in fashion, language, entertainment, pop culture, and even politics. These last five decades saw Hip Hop evolve from house parties in the Bronx to the global stage.
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This Week In Black History December 13-19, 2023
EDDIE KENDRICKS
DECEMBER 13
1903—Another one of the great unsung heroines of the Civil Rights Movement Ella Baker is born in Norfolk, Va. She directed the New York branch of the NAACP; became executive director of the Martin Luther King Jr. founded Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the turbulent 1960s; and played a key role in the founding of the “Black Power” oriented Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
In addition, she was a mentor to Rosa Parks and helped to lead the Mississippi voter registration drive. She frequently found herself as the only woman in the usually all male leadership structure of civil rights organizations and often had to battle sexism. Even more than Rosa Parks, Baker deserves to be called the “mother of the civil rights movement.” Baker, a teacher, mentor and organizer, died in 1986 on her 83rd birthday.
1913—Archie Moore is born Archibald Lee White in Benoit, M
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[Congressional Bills 117th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. Res. 647 Agreed to Senate (ATS)] <DOC> 117th församling 2d möte S. RES. 647 Designating the gods weekend of June 2022 to commemorate the first weekend of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival and the first full weekend of May to commemorate the sista weekend of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival of 1970. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 24, 2022 Mr. Schumer (for han själv and Mr. Cassidy) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to _______________________________________________________________________ RESOLUTION Designating the gods weekend of June 2022 to commemorate the first weekend of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival and the first full weekend of May to commemorate the sista weekend of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival of 1970. Whereas, in the summer of 1969, singer Tony
This Week In Black History December 13-19, 2023
EDDIE KENDRICKS
DECEMBER 13
1903—Another one of the great unsung heroines of the Civil Rights Movement Ella Baker is born in Norfolk, Va. She directed the New York branch of the NAACP; became executive director of the Martin Luther King Jr. founded Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the turbulent 1960s; and played a key role in the founding of the “Black Power” oriented Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
In addition, she was a mentor to Rosa Parks and helped to lead the Mississippi voter registration drive. She frequently found herself as the only woman in the usually all male leadership structure of civil rights organizations and often had to battle sexism. Even more than Rosa Parks, Baker deserves to be called the “mother of the civil rights movement.” Baker, a teacher, mentor and organizer, died in 1986 on her 83rd birthday.
1913—Archie Moore is born Archibald Lee White in Benoit, M
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