Sabtu, 11 Juli 2009

The Cake Walk

The cake walk started as a black parody of white elite ball room dancing and snootiness done in the slave quarters and on the lawn and i...

Many do not know that the Harlem Renaissance literary figure Langston Hughes lived in Mexico and spoke Spanish fluently. Jim Crow laws and c...

In two weeks I travel to Mexico City for an academic conference. I look forward to the variety of foods that street venders sell. Most of a...

Like many across the world, I watched the home going service for Michael Jackson (MJ) on TV, who Barry Gordy aptly coined during the service...

Because I’m currently writing a book entitled Black and Latino Relations in New York, 1959-2008, Columbia History of Urban Life Series, Seri...

During the Depression African Americans Robert and Gladys Walker (who went by the names Bill and Geraldine) started a cash-only barbecue s...

Eugene “Hot Sauce” Williams operated perhaps the best barbecue stands in 1950s Cleveland, Ohio. In 1920, Williams, a childhood friend of L...