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Black Scholarship And Black Culture
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Hosted and Published by: Lamont Jack Pearley Many Black Academic Scholars are also active practitioners in our respective cultures and traditions. That doesn’t negate their ability to teach, mentor, or share skills and tricks of the trade with the folk. It actually makes them even more qualified. Some feel Black Scholars who are educated…
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The African American Folklorist Ep 2 – Elijah Cox
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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…
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Zora Neale Hurston – Episode 3 African American Folklorists, Writers and the Blues
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Published By Lamont Jack Pearley Talking Bout The Blues Video series African American Folklorist, Writers and the Blues. This series highlights African American writers, folklorists, ethnologist, composers and playwriters, that documented, described and flat out canvased the Black experience through their works, connecting the dots between the Blues, Spirituals, Work songs, Prison songs and…
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The Slave Narrative – Uncle Cinto Lewis
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Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley On this episode of Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Radio i will be reading from and discussing the Slave Narrative of Ex- Slave Uncle Cinto Lewis. Uncle Cinto Lewis, ex-slave, claims to “be 111 years old. He lived in a brick cabin with his wife, Aunt Lucy, on the Huntington…
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The Slave Narrative “Aunt Adeline” – Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Radio
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Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley 30380 Interviewer Mrs* Zillah Cross Peel Person interviewed Aunt Adeline — Age 89 Home 101 Hock Street* Fayetteville. Arkansas *I was born a slave about 1848, in Hickmon County, Tennessee,* said Aunt Adeline who lives as care taker in a house at 101 Rock Street, Faystteville, Arkansas, which is…
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The Black South in Chicago – Federal Writers Project
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Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley I came across this piece in the “American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1940” after discussing Margaret Walker and her being hired by the Federal Writers Project in 1936 on today’s show! This is one of the many manuscripts that are part of the…
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The Slave Narrative – Laura Abromsom R.F.D. Holly Grove Arkansas
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Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley This Episode we will be going over the Laura Abromsom R.F.D. Holly Grove Arkansas Slave Narrative. •30395 #6B5 8 Interviewer Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed Laura Abromsom Holly Grove* Arkansas Receives mail at Clarendon* Arkansas Age 74 *My mama was named Eloise Rogers* She was born in Missouri* She…
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Slave Narrative – Lucius Abernathey Interview
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Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work…