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Rap and Hip Hop: Crash Course Black American History #47
Music is an integral part of Black American culture. Today, Clint Smith will teach you about rap & hip hop, and the cultural significance of artists including Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, the Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, N.W.A., Queen...
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How Music Helped James Baldwin Make Sense of Inequality
What can music offer to economists? Ed Pavlić, Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Georgia, explains how music offered a powerful lyrical companion to the social scientific tools...
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The History of Heavy Metal
Heavy metal is a musical genre known for its loud instrumentation, fast tempos, and aggressive style. This video explores the genre's origins in the 1970s with bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, as well as its evolution into...
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Jerron Paxton, Reviving America's Musical Heritage
New ReviewJoin Chris Funk in exploring the life of Jerron Paxton, a young virtuoso breathing new life into century-old music.
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Debunking the myth of the Lost Cause: A lie embedded in American history | Karen L. Cox
In the 1860's, 11 southern states withdrew from the United States and formed the Confederacy. They seceded in response to the growing movement for the nationwide abolition of slavery. Yet barely a year after the Civil War ended, southern...
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Remembering Johnny Cash: The Man in Black
New ReviewThis video provides a poignant overview of the life and legacy of the iconic musician Johnny Cash, known as the Man in Black. It highlights his enduring impact on the music industry, his deep connection with his wife June Carter Cash,...
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Music and Black History
Music is an important and effective medium for communicating emotions and inspiration. Learn about two important Black musicians who don't often get talked about in school: Abbey Lincoln and Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti.
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Martin Luther King Jr. For Kids | Song & Rap
Video: Martin Luther King Jr. | An Inspirational Rap Song Grade Levels: All Grades SUMMARY: Learn all about the Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr and how he rose to become one of the greatest men in History by his message of...
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Is 'Old Town Road' by Lil Nas X real country music? (feat. Blanco Brown)
It’s often been said that music is a universal language. So why was “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X initially removed from the country Billboard charts? Hallease and Evelyn use this hit record to talk about the business of music and how it...
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The Time a Black Baseball Team beat the Ku Klux Klan
The Time a Black Baseball Team beat the Ku Klux Klan
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The Story of Earl Simmons aka DMX
Rapper DMX was one of America's biggest stars in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and his achievements secured him a spot in music history when he became the first artist to see his first five albums ranked at number one. In the United...
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Bluegrass Music
Kentucky’s Appalachian Mountains was the birthplace of Bluegrass Music and Bill Monroe who became the Godfather of the Bluegrass
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The Day A Bunch of Kids Beat The Chief of Police
The Birmingham Children’s crusade of 1963, or the Children's March, was a march of school students aged 7 to 18 in Birmingham, Alabama that started on May 2, 1963. The purpose of the March was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about...
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TED-Ed: The dark history of Mount Rushmore | Ned Blackhawk and Jeffrey D. Means
Between 1927 and 1941, workers blasted 450,000 tons of rock from a mountainside using chisels, jackhammers, and dynamite. Gradually, they carved out Mount Rushmore. Today, the monument draws nearly 3 million people to South Dakota's...
TED Talks
TED: The Black history of twerking -- and how it taught me self-love | Lizzo
Twerking is mainstream now ... but do you know where it came from? Superstar Lizzo traces booty shaking to a traditional West African dance and tells how Black women across generations kept the rhythm alive, from blues and jazz singers...
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Ugly History: The US syphilis experiment | Susan M. Reverby
Afflicting nearly 1 in 10 Americans, syphilis was ravaging the U.S. in the 1930s. Many doctors believed syphilis affected Black and white patients differently, and the Public Health Service launched an experiment to investigate,...
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TED-Ed: One of the most "dangerous" men in American history | Keenan Norris
In 1830, David Walker sewed a pamphlet into the lining of a coat. The volume was thin enough to be hidden, but its content was far from insubstantial. At the time, many members of the US government considered this pamphlet to be one of...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The dark history of the suburbs | Kevin Ehrman-Solberg and Kirsten Delegard
Beginning in the 1800s, people began writing clauses into property deeds that were meant to prevent all future owners from selling or leasing to certain racial groups, especially Black people. These racial covenants spread like wildfire...
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TED: The origins of blackface and Black stereotypes | Dwan Reece
If you're wondering why blackface -- mimicking people of African descent via stereotypes and makeup-darkened skin -- is a big deal, then perhaps a little history lesson can help demystify the outcry. Dwan Reece, curator at the National...
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Why this instrument explains Black American folk music
Jake Blount, a banjo scholar, explains. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Jake Blount has built a career out of understanding the banjo’s connection to Black American folk music. In...
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Reclaiming History: Our Native Daughters 🎵 FULL EPISODE | Smithsonian Channel
In January 2018, Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell collaborated on a groundbreaking and deeply personal album for Smithsonian Folkways called "Songs of Our Native Daughters." The result was a powerful,...
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Ladies First: Black Women & Sex in Hip-Hop 💋 Meaning in Music | Smithsonian Channel + @MTV News
In the summer of 2020, the news cycle shifted its judgmental gaze to Cardi B. and Megan Thee Stallion. Their crime? A catchy song made up of three letters, 'WAP'. Lost in the waves of condemnation that followed was the context that male...
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Slavery in the 13 Colonies (Story Time with Mr. Beat)
Once upon a time, African nations fought each other, as nations tend to do throughout history. After a victory, an African nation would often enslave many of the enemies it had captured. Most of these enslaved Africans, from various...
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Black People named in the Guinness World Record
Here is a list of Black people in the Guinness Book of World Records and what they have accomplished in fields from music to sports to politics. How many of these people do you recognize?
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