Month: February 2020

Greensboro Sit-Ins (1960)

William Grant Still (1895-1978) William Grant Still also grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, and also had a strong friendship with Langston Hughes. An oboist, arranger, conductor, and composer of jazz and popular music themes, Still was the first African American to conduct a major American orchestra, the first to have a symphony performed by […]

Florence B Price (1887-1953) Price was the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra. (The Chicago Symphony premiered her Symphony in E minor in 1933.) Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Price’s music draws on her southern roots. Her friendships with […]

Originally posted on Mix Of Things:
hello everyone, so this month is black history month, as I prepare some facts and information to post you can read previous posts, just type in the “search engine” “black history” and all the facts I previously posted should come up and you will be able to view it,…

Originally posted on Mix Of Things:
OK SO ONE OF MY FAVORITE ARTIST PASS AWAY LIKE A WEEK AGO AND I WANTED TO MAKE THIS POST ABOUT BECAUSE HOW STRONG HE WAS, OK SO I HEARD OF HIM 10 YEARS AGO AND I HEARD HIS FIRST SINGLE AND HE FROM CALIFORNIA SO THE SONG SOUNDED…

Dear Kobe Bryant, I know you will never get to read this letter but I’m still writing it to remind myself the impact you had on me, we take a lot of people in our lives for granted and we need to appreciate them more, I never met you but for years saw you on […]