African Americans have had such a big influence on American culture! In sports, literature, entertainment, politics, fashion, etc.
Click on an image in the gallery below to see the pictures larger and read my captions.
Click on an image in the gallery below to see the pictures larger and read my captions.
Here is the trailer for the 1985 Steven Spielberg movie version of Alice Walker's powerful novel The Color Purple (1982) and the trailer for Jordan Peele's horror movie about race Get Out (2017).
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Here are some youtube videos of songs and poems etc. by African Americans. Watch them!
- "Let My People Go," a slave spiritual sung by a black man in Angola Prison in Louisiana (God is telling Moses to go to Egypt's Pharaoh to tell him to let the Jewish people go free from slavery!)
- "Lay Dis Body Down" a slave spiritual sung by a white British woman, June Tabor (The words she sings are a little different than in our Meishisen #94 version, but basically the same!)
- "We Real Cool" (1959) read by Gwendolyn Brooks and Morgan Freeman
- Jay-Z's "99 Problems" (2004), about problems that young black men face in racist America, like having white policemen stop you while driving.
- Beyoncé's "Brown Skin Girl" (2019), about how beautiful and special brown skin is: "Brown skin girl, Your skin just like pearls, The best thing in the world, I'll never trade you for anybody else."
Check them out! Most words are difficult to understand, but some are easy.
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