Harlem Renaissance dialogues (part 5): The need to know and the value of legacy

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Created by author, poet, artist, and historian Aberjhani, The CREATIVE SPIRIT OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE is presented with the same inspired and joy-filled intentions that gave the world one of the most dynamically rich periods of art, music, literature, theatre, and progressive social activism it has ever known.(Original writings copyrighted by author. Artwork copyrighted by individual artists.)

Harlem Renaissance dialogues (part 5): The need to know and the value of legacy

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The Year of James Baldwin Now in Full Classic Literary Swing (part 1) - by Aberjhani

Author James Baldwin in St. Paul de Vence, France, 1976. (photo by Dmitri Kasterine) “It has always been much easier (because it has always seemed much safer) to give a name to the evil without than to locate the terror within. And yet, the terror within is far truer and far more powerful than any of our labels: the labels change, the terror is constant.” –James Baldwin, from the essay Nothing Personal Members of New York City’s cultural arts community made a rare kind of decision earlier this year and the results of that decision continue to generate exceptional events and responses. They–– as in Columbia University School of the Arts, Harlem Stage, and New York Live Arts–– elected to observe The Year of James Baldwin from April 2014 until June 2015 in honor of the late iconoclastic African-American author’s 90th birthday August 2, 2014. Long before he died on December 1, 1987, millions came to recognize the indelible mark of Baldwin’s impact on, and the incredible depth

THE EXTRAORDINARY TALENT OF BEAUFORD DELANEY

This 1941 portrait of celebrated author James Baldwin, entitled “Dark Rapture,” is one of numerous masterworks created by the equally celebrated Harlem Renaissance artist Beauford Delaney (1902-1979). Delaney (whose brother Joseph, 1904-1991, was also an accomplished artist) enjoyed a remarkable career that spanned some five decades. That he was a visual artist whose creative aesthetics profoundly influenced the work of a major literary artist like James Baldwin is one indicator of how powerfully charged the creative energy of the Harlem Renaissance truly was. Aberjhani Co-author of ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE And the author of I MADE MY BOY OUT OF POETRY

Facing the Challenge of the Unfathomable: #BringBackOurGirls

Nigeria and Mother's Day illustration by John Cole for The Times-Tribune . When confronted by something too painful, incredulous, or monstrous to believe, a person will sometimes say, “I couldn't even wrap my head around that!” Such was probably one of the main reasons the international community took so long to respond in any meaningful way to the abduction of the almost 300 Chibok school girls in Nigeria. The emotional impact was, and is, not completely unlike that of seeing for the first time a film clip of the aircraft exploding against the Twin Towers on 9/11. It was an image unprecedented in one’s mental model of what reality is supposed to be and therefore an image one was not able to immediately process. Who could believe that an army of armed adult men would attack and abduct nearly 300 school girls in the middle of the night? Moreover, in retrospect, why were the girls left in such a vulnerable position in the first place? F

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Skylark in Contemplative Creative Flight: I am a visual artists whose works can be found on Fine Art American and an author whose books are as follows: --Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah (2019) --I Made My Boy Out of Poetry (1998) --The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003/2017) --Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (2003/2010) --Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World (2007) --The American Poet Who Went Home Again (2008) --ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love (2008) --The River of Winged Dreams (2010) Savannah: The Immortal City (Editor, 2010) --Savannah: Brokers, Bankers, and Bay Lane, Inside the Slave Trade (Editor, 2011) --Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black (2012)

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