tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3666150771768858497.post2833720993556052896..comments2023-05-25T06:41:22.913-04:00Comments on Inner City Truths: It Still Is A LONG Time Coming...Eye D. VS Mel O.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14498681705502984594noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3666150771768858497.post-79591599965178077252008-02-19T11:42:00.000-05:002008-02-19T11:42:00.000-05:00-The Harlem Renaissance in itself could be looked ...-The Harlem Renaissance in itself could be looked at as a double-edged sword. Sure there was an prolific amount of writing, and music, but it didn't do a whole lot to amend the egregious social disadvantages that Blacks faced. However, it did help lay the ground work for Civil Rights movements in the North which in itself became epitomized as an American renaissance. But going back the the HR--take for instance the Cotton Club. It helped establish the careers of Duke Ellington and Dorothy Danridge, all while playing to a white audience<BR/><BR/>-I wonder myself. Of course everything works in cycles, and maybe whatever comes next will be a highly evolved version of something else<BR/><BR/>-HA! read this http://onthewritersblock.blogspot.com/2007/08/new-black-panthers.html<BR/>I wrote in AugustYellow Rebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02263074193081898594noreply@blogger.com