Podcasts about harlem on my mind

Into America was nominated for a 2022 NAACP Image Award! We're finalists in the Outstanding News and Information Podcast category, and we need your vote. Go to vote.naacpimageawards.net to cast your ballot today.In February 2021, Into America launched Harlem on My Mind, a series that followed four figures from the Harlem Renaissance who defined Blackness for themselves and what it means to be Black in America today.The story began in December 2020, when host Trymaine Lee acquired something he coveted for years: a numbered print titled Schomburg Library by American icon Jacob Lawrence. The print came with a handwritten dedication to a man named Abram Hill. Who was Abram Hill? How did he know Jacob Lawrence? Did their paths cross at the famed Schomburg Library?What followed was a journey of discovery, through conversations with friends, historians and experts, to understand the interconnected lives of Black creators in and around the Harlem Renaissance. And it started with Jacob Lawrence, a child of the Great Migration who was nurtured by the great artists and ideas of the period. Two women who knew Lawrence well, art historian Dr. Leslie King-Hammond and artist Barbara Earl Thomas, reflected on his life, death and contributions to Black culture.As Into America gears up for our 2022 Black History series, Reconstructed – a look at the legacy of the Reconstruction era –we wanted to revisit Harlem on My Mind and share it with you again. Special thanks to the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (Original release date: February 4, 2021)Further Listening:Harlem on My Mind: Jacob LawrenceHarlem on My Mind: Arturo SchomburgHarlem on My Mind: Jessie Redmon FausetHarlem on My Mind: Abram Hill

In the final installment of Harlem on My Mind, Trymaine Lee learns about the legacy of playwright Abram Hill, who used his work to center Black characters, Black audiences, and Black communities unapologetically.Abram Hill co-founded the American Negro Theater in 1940, operating a small 150-seat theater from the basement of Harlem's Schomburg Center. The American Negro Theater, also known as the ANT, would become a launch pad for stars like Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier, even as Hill's name was largely lost to history.Trymaine tours the Schomburg Center with chief of staff Kevin Matthews, and sits down with Dr. Koritha Mitchell, an associate English professor at Ohio State University, to better understand Abram Hill and the ANT's rise and fall.And we learn about the legacy Hill leaves behind. In the 1960s, the New Heritage Theater Group grew from the foundation of the ANT and has been going strong since. Voza Rivers is the group's executive producer. Trymaine talks with him, as well as actor Anthony Goss, who appeared in a 2017 re-production of Hill's hit play On Strivers' Row. Rivers and Goss, two men forty years apart, describe how Hill's commitment to community continues to resonate across generations.We also hear from Abram Hill, in his own words, thanks to audio recordings from Schomburg Center archives and the Hatch Billops Estate, as well as the Works Progress Administration Oral History collection at George Mason University Libraries' Special Collections Research Center.For a transcript, please visit https://www.msnbc.com/intoamerica.Thoughts? Feedback? Story ideas? Write to us at intoamerica@nbcuni.comFurther Listening:Harlem on My Mind: Jacob LawrenceHarlem on My Mind: Arturo SchomburgHarlem on My Mind: Jessie Redmon Fauset 

In Part 3 of Into America's Black History Month series, Harlem on My Mind, Trymaine Lee spotlights the influence of Jessie Redmon Fauset. Langston Hughes called her one of the midwives of the Harlem Renaissance, but few today remember her name.As literary editor for NAACP's The Crisis magazine, Fauset fostered the careers of many notable writers of the time: poets Countee Cullen and Gwendolyn Bennet, novelist Nella Larsen, writer Claude McCay. Fauset was the first person to publish Langston Hughes, when The Crisis printed the poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers. Fauset was also a writer, penning essays and poems. She went on to write four novels, including There is Confusion (1924). Her focus on bourgeois characters and women's ambition shaped the conversation about Black identity in Harlem at the time.Dr. Julia S. Charles, professor of English at Auburn University, sheds light on the full scope of Fauset's work, including her complicated relationship with Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois and other notable Black thinkers. Author Morgan Jerkins describes how Fauset's legacy has inspired her own work as a writer, editor, and resident of today's Harlem.Special thanks to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.Thoughts? Feedback? Story ideas? Write to us at intoamerica@nbcuni.com Further Reading and Listening:Harlem on My Mind: Jacob LawrenceHarlem on My Mind: Arturo SchomburgThe Forgotten Work of Jessie Redmon Fauset

Into America continues its Black History Month series, Harlem on My Mind, following four figures from Harlem who defined Blackness for themselves and what it means to be Black in America today. The series begins when Trymaine Lee acquires a signed print by Jacob Lawrence titled “Schomburg Library.”The Schomburg Center for Research and Black Culture is based in Harlem, but its roots are on the island of Puerto Rico with a little Afro Puerto Rican boy named Arturo Schomburg. Determined to collect a record of Black history that could tell us who we are and where we've been, Arturo Schomburg amassed a personal collection of 10,000 Black books, artwork and documents. That collection eventually became the Schomburg Center we know today, which is part of the New York Public Library system. Trymaine Lee speaks with Vanessa Valdés, author of Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Shola Lynch, curator of the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division of the Schomburg Center, and Arturo Schomburg's grandson, Dean Schomburg to better understand who Arturo was and the impact of his legacy on Black identity and Black culture.For a transcript, please visit https://www.msnbc.com/intoamerica. Thoughts? Feedback? Story ideas? Write to us at intoamerica@nbcuni.comFurther Reading and Listening:Harlem on My Mind: Jacob LawrenceVideo of Arturo Schomburg in the Schomburg's original reading room, courtesy of the Schomburg Center's YouTube pageDiasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg by Vanessa Valdés

This Black History Month, Into America launches Harlem on My Mind, a series that follows four figures from Harlem who defined Blackness for themselves and what it means to be Black in America today.The story begins in December, when host Trymaine Lee acquires something he coveted for years: a numbered print titled Schomburg Library by American icon Jacob Lawrence. The print came with a handwritten dedication to a man named Abram Hill. Who was Abram Hill? How did he know Jacob Lawrence? Did their paths cross at the famed Schomburg Library?What follows is a journey of discovery, through conversations with friends, historians and experts, to understand the interconnected lives of Black creators in and around the Harlem Renaissance. And it starts with Jacob Lawrence, a child of the Great Migration who was nurtured by the great artists and ideas of the period. Two women who knew Lawrence well, art historian Dr. Leslie King-Hammond and artist Barbara Earl Thomas, reflect on his life, death and contributions to Black culture.Special thanks to the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Thoughts? Feedback? Story ideas? Write to us at intoamerica@nbcuni.com Further Reading and Listening:“The World of Jacob Lawrence:” Keynote Address by Dr. Leslie King-HammondA Seattle artist cuts through the chaos of the pandemicAn Interview with Jacob Lawrence

Songs include: Harlem On a Saturday Night, Harlem Strut, Drop Me Off In Harlem, I'm Red Hot From Harlem and Harlem On My Mind. Artists include: Duke Ellington, Ethyl Waters. Adelaide Hall, Cab Calloway, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Slim Gaillard and James P. Johnson.

Julia Breanetta Simpson, Founder and Artistic Director of Breanetta Productions. Her one-woman show, “Harlem On My Mind” has been selected to be presented during the 10th Anniversary Season of the United Solo Theatre Festival, the world’s largest solo theatre festival that runs from September 19 – November 24, 2019. "Harlem On My Mind"  will be performed at 7:30pm October 8th at Theatre Row at 410 W 42nd Street, NYC, NY! "Harlem On My Mind”, created and performed by Julia Breanetta Simpson, is a dynamic musical journey through the “Harlem Renaissance.” Experience the poetry of Langston Hughes, the personalities of Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters and Josephine Baker and the music of “Duke” Ellington,Thomas “Fats” Waller, Irving Berlin and more. Join Julia on Music Monday September 22 at 1pmET/10amPT and anytime after in archive, as she shares her journey and performs a few great songs, too! Thank you to our sponsors Safety Bags, Inc; and StadiumBags.com and No Such Thing as a Bully and Smith Sisters Bluegrass for our theme song, "She is You". Connect with #WoMMedia on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. For info email dori@wordofmomradio.com. #WordofMom ~ Sharing the Wisdom of Women      

Catherine (“Cat”) Russell. Backup singer/collaborator to David Bowie, Steely Dan, Jackson Browne, Paul Simon, Dolly Parton (and many more!), and her legendary father (the late Luis Russell) was Louis Armstrong’s musical director. She is also an incredible Jazz Musician - her sixth album, Harlem On My Mind, received a Grammy Nomination. As you can imagine, Cat has incredibly dazzling stories to share, and you’ll hear some of them on this episode. For example what it was like to sing duets with David Bowie night after night, why singing with Dolly Parton - who she describes as the “sweetest, most real person” is one of her all-time favorite experiences, and what Louis Armstrong meant to her. She also talks about singing with Steely Dan (she’s been working with them over the last 25 years and counting), Paul Simon, her dear friend Cindy Lauper, and more. She has an incredibly rich musical background and you’ll love to hear these stories. But to me, she is the person who taught me how to sing the Blues, who helped me move through my first real heartbreak, and the woman who continues to mentor and care for me through life’s challenges and joys. She’s still one of my all-time favorite people to sit down with over a cup of tea to talk about music, men, work, friendship, LIFE. As you’ll hear in the interview, she talks about being honest with her feelings, about emotional learnings, the things no one teaches us about it school - and how list writing helps when her mind is racing. Because Catherine has taught me so much about life and music I thought it was fitting to have her as our first artist in the “mentor series” of this podcast. I love her to pieces, and know you will, too! Where to find Catherine: Website Facebook Twitter This episode was audio produced by Aaron Moring. Theme music by Heather Maloney. Podcast Webpage: montseandree.com/podcast and Instagram.

Breanetta Productions, headed up by the amazing Julia Breanetta Simpson is hosting  “An Evening Of Classic Hollywood Glamour” The “Classy & Sassy: Lena Horne Tribute” CD Release Party & Benefit 10/13 at 5:00pm.  Julia is a long-time advocate of diversity and inclusion in the arts, who served as a nationally elected Councilor of Actor’s Equity Association for 23 years and co-chaired the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee among others.  Breanetta Productions actively promotes arts in education by performing Classy & Sassy: A Lena Horne Tribute, Harlem On My Mind, How Sweet The Sound and Julia and the Duke as a one-woman cabaret, as educational presentations in schools as well as in libraries, senior centers and prisons.   Follow them on facebook or contact them at at 914-740-8226 or info@breanettaproductions.com Thanks to our sponsors Safety Bags, Inc.; StadiumBags.com and Traci's Healthy Habits.  Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.  Email dori@wordofmomradio.com for information on how to become a guest or sponsor! #WoMRadioNetwork ~ Sharing the wisdom of women

Julia Breanetta Simpson has performed throughout the country from North Carolina to South Dakota to Nashville to Carnegie Hall in productions of “Death Of A Salesman”, “Ain't Misbehavin'”, “Dreamgirls”, “For Colored Girls. . .”, “One Mo' Time”, “Purlie”, and “Tintypes”.   Julia earned her BFA degree in Musical Theatre at Syracuse University.  She is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA and MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs). She is showcasing her one-woman show "Harlem On My Mind", a musical dynamic journey through the time in history known as “The Harlem Renaissance”.  Many of the songs featured in "Harlem On My Mind" can also be found on her CD "Here's To Life". Visit www.breanettaproductions.com to here clips and to purchase. Julia created Breanetta Productions to inspire, educate and entertain audiences of all ages and walks of life. For more information on Julia or how to book “Harlem On My Mind” please contact BP @ info@breanettaproductions.com or 914-740-8226 and visit the web at www.breanettaproductions.com Join us for Music Monday January 11th at 10amPT/1pmET and anytime in archive with Julia Breanetta Simpson. Thanks to our show sponsor Safety Bags, LLC and their new division StadiumBags.com Meet them and all of our sponsors in our Mompreneur Marketplace on our website.

The fabulous Julia Breanetta Simpson is back on Word of Mom Radio sharing music from her Christmas Extravaganza this Saturday and her upcoming show in February called "How Sweet The Sound." Breanetta Productions honors and celebrates contributions made to society and world culture by African Americans. We provide affordable access to the arts for a diverse audience by presenting performances and cultural events in schools, libraries, theatres, churches, festivals and other community venues. Julia has had the good fortune to perform throughout the Tri-State area in her one-woman shows Harlem On My Mind and How Sweet The Sound. She has appeared around the country at Regional, Dinner and Stock Theatres in such productions as Ain't Misbehavin', Dreamgirls, For Colored Girls, One Mo' Time, Purlie, Tintypes, and When The Nightingale Sings. She has appeared in various Off-Broadway Theatres and Cabaret venues in New York City. Julia is a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA and M.A.C Julia is a nationally elected Councilor of Actor's Equity Association and co-chair of its Equal Employment Opportunity Committee. Join us for a 30 minute show and welcome Julia to the Word of Mom Radio sponsor family. She will be joining our Mompreneur Marketplace in the next few weeks. Be sure to connect with us on Facebook and Twitter and Google+ and email dori@wordofmomradio.com for information on how to be a guest on WoMRadio. Word of Mom Radio - sharing the wisdom of women.