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The Harlem Renaissance. Yeah, shorty!!! What it is!!!. Blong, blong, blong!. We’re just getting in; Just a few words from the Ying-Yang Twins!!!. Blong, blong, blong. How are things? Brother-man and I stopped by to tell you a little bit about…. Blong, blong, blong.
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Yeah, shorty!!! What it is!!! Blong, blong, blong!
We’re just getting in; Just a few words from the Ying-Yang Twins!!! Blong, blong, blong..
How are things? Brother-man and I stopped by to tell you a little bit about… Blong, blong, blong..
As I was saying, we’re here to tell you about the Harlem Renaissance.. ...peanut butter jelly…
If it weren’t for the Harlem Renaissance, brother-man and I might not be talking to you today. …it’s peanut-butter-jelly time…
…snoooky-dooooky….SNOKYDOOKY! The word renaissance means “re-birth”.
You know what? I can’t do this. I can’t take you any where YES!! Hey, John! …if a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, does it really make a sound?
Uh-huh!! Could you please tell these people about the Harlem Renaissance? I have to take brother-man home. …squeak, squeak, squeak…
Listen mane, if the Renaissance was a dude, it would be an O.G.!
Like partner said, it paved the way for all African-American artists.
Way back during World War I, black soldiers and white soldiers fought together side by side in Europe.
When the black soldiers came back to America, they ran into the same racism that they had left…
…the same racism that told them that they couldn’t have a piece of the American Dream.
During the early 1900’s, hundreds of thousands of black people moved from the rural South to the North.
As more and more blacks settled in Harlem, New York, the neighborhood became a meeting ground for writers, musicians, performers and thinkers.
Before the Renaissance, black writers tried to imitate white writers…
…but writers of the Renaissance “kept it real”, as they say….
From the 1920’s through the early 1930’s, African-American writers produced fifty volumes of poetry and fiction.
To keep it simple, there had been African-American poets before, but the Renaissance was the first time that America accepted and embraced African-American art, literature, and music on a wide scale.
