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 […]
Author: Andre
My name is Andre, This blog is about different type of things that are in my brain that I don’t often get to express because its so much to say or simply don’t have the time and some stuff is things I actually do get to talk about, I compare it to my all time favorite meal a pot of gumbo, because there different ingrediants in there that make the gumbo as an whole good, so its the same for my blog I want it to be good with different things that people can take a point away from and can relate too.
I have a publishing site with mini stories you can read check it out below!
my publishing site is: http://www.writerscafe.org/andre5
Black History Facts!
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 […]
Reminder Post!
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,…
personal taste post!
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…
YOU HAVE INSPIRED ME KOBE BRYANT!
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 […]
to be honest i dont know what to title this post
I’m just as sad and heartbroken and devasted and shock and confuse like everybody else is this just a post coming straight from my heart about a man a legend who pass away my inspiration, I’m at lost for words earlier I was planing out what I was gone say I forgot everything best things […]
Hello everyone
Hello everyone, it been awhile since i posted im sorry just been busy, hows everybody doing? i wanted to make this post because it seem like a traditon i have on this website and that is posting alot of black history facts, so as we know black history month is coming up in february and […]
life post!
I was reading this good article from a journal and in it something was said that is true, it said “I fear dropping the plate and it breaks in many pieces then I can count, even though that plate will inevitably crack agian, it has been my experience that where there is brokenness there is […]
Harriet Tubman!
I saw the movie about Harriet Tubman which was so good of how brave she was and fearless and she did so many things to save people from slavery but her goal was to end slavery, just a very inspirational story, here is her story. [down below] Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known […]
NEW POST!
Originally posted on Mix Of Things:
Ok so i said we was gone talk about people in authority..first off those who have some type of power abuse there power they use the power to belittle people beneath them and make them feel like they nothing they make others do there dirty work for them and…
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