Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley, video produced by WDSU News Project Community Avery Caesar Alexander was a Louisiana civil rights leader and politician. He graduated from Union Baptist Theological Seminary and was ordained into the Baptist ministry in 1944. He was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1975 and served...
Published by: The African American Folklorist Newspaper (Lamont Jack Pearley Editor) Story and podcast producer Courtland W. Hankins, III (aka The President of Hip Hop) An American Hero & Anti-Hero Talks Reparations – The Story of Ari Merratazon Most of you are familiar with the movie Dead Presidents starring Larenz Tate. I bet you don’t...
Published By: The African American Folklorist Newspaper (Editor Lamont Jack Pearley) Written By: Jim Hauser Are the African American ballads “Stagolee” and “John Henry” freedom songs? What I mean is, Do they express racial resistance, protest, and rebellion? I’ve been researching both ballads for well over a decade, and I believe the answer to this...
The African American Folklorist Doc Series Ep 1 title – “Black Is Not an Ethnic Group” Guest Gabriel Greaves – Scholar, Activist & Historian On location at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore, attending the American Folklore Society Annual Conference Produced by Lamont Jack Pearley Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation lamontjackpearley@jackdappabluesradio.tv paypal.me/LamontJack
On this episode of The African American Folklorist, I share the story of the born free, African American Traditional Music Practitioner Elijah Cox, who was a fiddler, Buffalo soldier, and recorded in 1935 at the age of 93 for the Library of Congress Elijah Cox was also interviewed and recorded for the Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from...