Revealed: African American Art & Culture Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was a true Renaissance man, being a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, autobiographer, and writer of children’s books (Rampersad 368). He was born in Joplin, Missouri, and spent most of his childhood in Lawrence, Kansas, but also lived in Illinois, Ohio, and Mexico (Rampersad 368). Hughes’ earliest […]

Explore Black Diasporan Art In “Gender and Leisure” by Susan Shaw and “Ethnicity, Race, and Leisure” by James H. Gramann and Maria T. Allison, the authors describe major ways in which race, ethnicity, and gender influence access and p art icipation in recreation and leisure. While distinctions of gender are fairly clear in examining the […]

Revealed: African American Art & Culture 1892 The U.S. Supreme Court: the highest court in the land. Their job: to decide the constitutionality of cases. But is that what they are really doing? Can we trust that their decisions are just? Two important cases in history can help answer this question. A 1896 U.S. Supreme […]