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Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay OJ (September 15, 1890 [1] – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.. Born in Jamaica, McKay first travelled to the United States to attend college, and encountered W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk which stimulated McKay's interest in political involvement.
formerly of New York, NY, for "power, skill, and originality in verse and prose" in Harlem Shadows and Home to Harlem. Second Award Bronze Medal, $100 Nella Larson Imes: of New York, NY, for her novel, Quicksand: Education: First Award Gold Medal, $400 Monroe N. Work
Davis is best remembered for his 1949 recording (as Brother Bones and His Shadows) of the 1925 standard "Sweet Georgia Brown". [2]The recording became nationally famous after its adoption as the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team in 1952.
Bing Crosby recorded the song on April 23, 1932, with Isham Jones and his Orchestra [5] and it is assessed as reaching No. 2 in the charts of the day. [6]The version used by the Harlem Globetrotters is a 1949 instrumental by Brother Bones [7] and His Shadows with whistling and bones by Brother Bones.
A gorgeous and blood-soaked animated Netflix series and author Trisha Sakhlecha's latest thriller round out our picks for the weekend of Jan. 24.
During the 1920s and 1930s, African American organized crime was centered in New York's Harlem, the largest black city in the world, [4] where the numbers racket was largely controlled by Casper Holstein and the "Madam Queen of Policy", Stephanie St. Clair. St.
Richard Bruce Nugent (July 2, 1906 – May 27, 1987), aka Richard Bruce and Bruce Nugent, was an American gay writer and painter in the Harlem Renaissance.Despite being a part of a group of many gay Harlem artists, Nugent was among the handful who were publicly out.
The Council was an African-American organized crime syndicate in New York City that controlled the heroin trade in the Harlem area of the city during the 1970s. Formed by Nicky Barnes in 1972, the seven-man organization ran the heroin trade in Harlem, handled local criminal disputes, and solved other issues related to the drug trade. [2]