Another, but its about creating culture production that offers something thats both excellent in its quality, but also demanding and transformative. I want to give a short example and im going to close with this. So there is an american muslim woman, shes a Grammy Nominated artist, and shes from baltimore, maryland. And she did a cover of a song that came out, i dont know, a year or two ago, by a young White British woman named lorde. And the song that lorde released was called royals. Its like were not royals. And the song many people read of a critique of hip hop culture, in particular in black culture right . And the idea of that all its about is money and bling and theres no substance or meaning to it, right . So she covers the song and is a dope mc and shes an amazing singer. So the song is excellent, right . But she also makes a point, and so i wanted to sort of share the point, one of the points that she makes, right . So she says, we dont know that old true blue blood slave mon
Another, but its about creating culture production that offers something thats both excellent in its quality, but also demanding and transformative. I want to give a short example and im going to close with this. So there is an american muslim woman, shes a Grammy Nominated artist, and shes from baltimore, maryland. And she did a cover of a song that came out, i dont know, a year or two ago, by a young White British woman named lorde. And the song that lorde released was called royals. Its like were not royals. And the song many people read of a critique of hip hop culture, in particular in black culture right . And the idea of that all its about is money and bling and theres no substance or meaning to it, right . So she covers the song and is a dope mc and shes an amazing singer. So the song is excellent, right . But she also makes a point, and so i wanted to sort of share the point, one of the points that she makes, right . So she says, we dont know that old true blue blood slave mon
Leaving plenty of time to get to googling and bone up on the accomplishments of notable africanamericans. Like Garrett Morgan the son of formerly enslaved parents, who was the first person to apply for and receive a u. S. Patent for a traffic signal. Ida b. Wells, a journalist and activist who led a tireless crusade against lynching in the 1890s. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams the first physician to perform and successfully complete open heart surgery on a patient in the United States. Or Marian Anderson whose soaring voice earned her the distinction of being both the first africanamerican to perform with the new York Metropolitan Opera and the first to perform at the invitation of franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt at the white house. And the list goes on. But of course africanAmerican History, which is to say American History, is much more than a listing of little known names and facts. Any honest interrogation of that history means not just gathering a collection of trivia about individual am
A Gonzales police officer who recently admitted to sending harassing text messages will keep his job and avoid jail time, but has been disciplined by his department, faces probation, fines