COURSE - Inside the Black Arts Movement and 2nd Harlem Renaissance

COURSE - Inside the Black Arts Movement and 2nd Harlem Renaissance

This Course explores the Black Arts Movement, sometimes called the Second Harlem Renaissance, with unique insights from an insider's view of the early Movement. Dr. Vertamae Grosvenor course instrutor and a resident of the East Village and Harlem during the period, participated in the Movement and interacted with many of the most notable personalities of the Era. Dr. Grosvenor and Dr. Helen Bartlett-Hanna reveal a comphrehensive, historical, and previously uncharted and untold view of the Black Arts Movement in the United States.

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COURSE - Inside the Black Arts Movement and 2nd Harlem Renaissance

COURSE - Inside the Black Arts Movement and 2nd Harlem Renaissance

Owner: Hannaian Research Institute

Course/Group members: 4

Description:


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The period of the late 1950's through the early 1970's in New York's lower Manhattan and then Harlem, was once known only for its accomplishments and elevation of Black literature, art, entertainment, and civil rights. It has now attained its proper place in the archives of major American and world history.

"The Great Migration out of the American South in efforts to flee the ravages of institutional racism brought many African Americans to Negro neighborhoods of the North and Midwest.  Harlem evidenced the convergence of these and others of African descent from the Caribbean who came to the United States hoping for a better life.  The inherent and inevitable cry to express their collective experience evidenced the birth and nurturing of the Harlem Renaissance and the subsequent Black Arts Movement".....

This Course explores the Black Arts Movement, sometimes called the Second Harlem Renaissance, with unique insights from an insider's view of the early Movement. Dr. Vertamae Grosvenor, course instructor and a resident of the East Village and Harlem during the period, participated in the Movement and interacted with many of the most notable personalities of the Era. Dr. Grosvenor and Dr. Helen Bartlett-Hanna reveal a comphrehensive, historical, and previously uncharted and untold view of the Black Arts Movement in the United States.

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Course Instructors

Vertamae Grosvenor, L.H.D

Vertamae Smart Grosvenor (born 1938 in Hampton County, South Carolina) is a Writer, Culinary Anthopologist / Griot and broadcaster, raised in the South Carolina low country. Grosvenor has been a long-time contributor to National Public Radio (NPR) and Public broadcasting in the United States. She has a long history of literary and broadcast accomplishments. Vertamae has appeared as an actress in several movies including "Beloved", "Daughters of the Dust", and "Personal Problems". She has also been the host of two television series, The Meaning of Food & Americas' Family Kitchen with Vertamae Grosvenor. Now in semi-retirement she was a regular contributor to NPR's Cultural Desk. She was also the host of Seasonings, a series of holiday specials on food and culture. From 1988 to 1995 she was the host of NPR's documentary series Horizons. In 1990 she won a DuPont-Columbia Award for "AIDS and Black America: Breaking the Silence". In 1992 the National Association of Black Journalists issued her an award for her segment "South Africa and the African-American Experience". Grosvenor is the author of Vibration Cooking, also known as The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl. The cookbook, originally published in 1970, is an autobiographical culinary cookbook, and documents her accession from the dusty roads of South Carolina to the bright lights of Paris, Italy, and other European countries, and later, to the Black Arts Movement of New York City. Through her experiences, Vertamae uses the universal palate of adventure to introduce the reader to people, places, rituals, and international culinary delights. Vibration Cooking focuses on low country cooking and Geechee (or Gullah) cooking. The book emphasizes spontaneity in the kitchen. Grosvenor shows the reader how to cook by "vibration," rather than precisely measuring ingredients, and how to "make do" with ingredients on hand. She captures the essence of traditional African American techniques. Her book uses the hearty, simple, healthful, basic ingredients of low country cuisine, including shrimp, oysters, crab, fresh produce, rice, and sweet potatoes. The first edition is now a classic cookbook collectors' must have, and a new edition was recently commissioned to be released in 2011. In addition to Vibration Cooking, Grosvenor is the author of "Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap". She has been a contributing editor to Elan Magazine and Essence Magazine, and has written for Village Voice, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. She was a member of the Sun Ra Jazz Arkestra, and participated in other seminal activities during the Black Arts Movement of the sixties and seventies. She is currently a member of Griot Girls Media producing Documentaries in Realia. She can be reached at griotgirls@hannaian.com.

 

Helen Bartlett-Hanna, B.A. Honors, M.A., CCC-SLP, J.D.

Helen Bartlett-Hanna serves as President of The Hannaian Research Institute, with additional responsibilities as Director of Academic Affairs, & Education Productivity Research. She has graduate training in Law , Speech Pathology, and Education. Her professional education and experiences began in Canada where she earned an Honors Bachelor's degree in English at the University of Windsor. She then received training in Speech Pathology at the University of Memphis, obtaining a Master's degree, and national and state certifications as a Speech & Language Pathologist. She also holds certifications as a Teacher, from the University of Memphis. She later received a Doctorate in Jurisprudence at the University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. She has practiced Speech Pathology in the Memphis/Shelby County School System, and the Palm Beach and Martin County School Systems. She has a special interest in early childhood speech & language development & research, and in furthering the processes that afford children legal & educational access to proper care within school systems. She is also interested in the study and examination of politics and its relationship to the education of Black America. She has written on the subject in the Griot Girls Media Magazine and is currently the executive producer of two documentaries on the subject. She can be reached at griotgirls@hannaian.com.

 

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Brief description: This Course explores the Black Arts Movement, sometimes called the Second Harlem Renaissance, with unique insights from an insider's view of the early Movement. Dr. Vertamae Grosvenor course instrutor and a resident of the East Village and Harlem during the period, participated in the Movement and interacted with many of the most notable personalities of the Era. Dr. Grosvenor and Dr. Helen Bartlett-Hanna reveal a comphrehensive, historical, and previously uncharted and untold view of the Black Arts Movement in the United States.

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