Red Sonja
Team Owner
Don't let anyone tell you any different, this is the hard cold stern truth African Americans are the true unsung founding fathers of America. African Americans are the ones who truly rule America not through money but spiritually. African Americans have always been the ones who were the moral and spiritual base of America. Know how important you are, understand your rich culture and your history. You history did not start in 1965 and young African Americans we must remember the core of our culture. Our culture is not ratchet and our culture is not downtrodden reality tv trash, our culture is rooted being close to the creator and our culture has uplifted people, brought forth happiness, joy and mental well being for ourselves. Please remember our true African American culture.
It was over 100 years where a mass majority of black folks from the South migrated to more industrial cities in the North and midwest and lead a culture renaissiance for the world after World War I. It was our culture that healed the world after World War I where there was mass war, casulaty and the puritanical traditional norms of Edwardian society was breaking. If freedom was the mindset of the Roaring Twenties, then jazz was the soundtrack. The Jazz Age was a cultural period and movement that took place in America during the 1920s from which both new styles of music and dance emerged. Largely credited to African Americans employing new musical techniques along with traditional African traditions, jazz soon expanded to America’s white middle class.
White folks at the time were fed up with the white establishment wanted to break free, loose and live their lives to the fullest and with that mindset brought forth economic renaissance.
Jazz was the right antidote to people's problems, it was free, unapologetic and liberating. Jazz culture was also liberating for black people escaping the Jim Crow south and living their lives to the fullest up North, here we saw an increase of entreprenurial/creative spirit from the black community. Black communities congreagated and created more businesses than ever before.
By 1920, there were tens of thousands of black businesses. The largest were insurance companies. The League had grown so large that it supported numerous offshoots, including the National Negro Bankers Association, the National Negro Press Association, the National Association of Negro Funeral Directors, the National Negro Bar Association, the National Association of Negro Insurance Men, the National Negro Retail Merchants' Association, the National Association of Negro Real Estate Dealers, and the National Negro Finance Corporation.According to the National Negro Business League, the number black-owned businesses doubled from 20,000 and 40,000 in 1914. There were 450 undertakers and, rising to 1000. Drugstores rose from 250 to 695.
The Jazz Age transformed America into a more rich cultural society, the greatest exporter from America is and has been Jazz music. The greatest changes within the Jazz Age.As the 1920s progressed, jazz rose in popularity and helped to generate a cultural shift. Because of its popularity in speakeasies, illegal nightclubs where alcohol was sold during Prohibition, and its proliferation due to the emergence of more advanced recording devices, jazz became very popular in a short amount of time, with stars including Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Chick Webb. Several famous entertainment venues such as the Apollo Theater and the Cotton Club came to epitomize the Jazz Age.
Dances such as the Charleston, developed by African Americans, instantly became popular among different demographics, including among young white people. With the introduction of large-scale radio broadcasts in 1922, Americans were able to experience different styles of music without physically visiting a jazz club. Through its broadcasts and concerts, the radio provided Americans with a trendy new avenue for exploring unfamiliar cultural experiences from the comfort of their living rooms. The most popular type of radio show was a “potter palm,” an amateur concert and big-band jazz performance broadcast from New York and Chicago.
It was over 100 years where a mass majority of black folks from the South migrated to more industrial cities in the North and midwest and lead a culture renaissiance for the world after World War I. It was our culture that healed the world after World War I where there was mass war, casulaty and the puritanical traditional norms of Edwardian society was breaking. If freedom was the mindset of the Roaring Twenties, then jazz was the soundtrack. The Jazz Age was a cultural period and movement that took place in America during the 1920s from which both new styles of music and dance emerged. Largely credited to African Americans employing new musical techniques along with traditional African traditions, jazz soon expanded to America’s white middle class.
White folks at the time were fed up with the white establishment wanted to break free, loose and live their lives to the fullest and with that mindset brought forth economic renaissance.
Jazz was the right antidote to people's problems, it was free, unapologetic and liberating. Jazz culture was also liberating for black people escaping the Jim Crow south and living their lives to the fullest up North, here we saw an increase of entreprenurial/creative spirit from the black community. Black communities congreagated and created more businesses than ever before.
By 1920, there were tens of thousands of black businesses. The largest were insurance companies. The League had grown so large that it supported numerous offshoots, including the National Negro Bankers Association, the National Negro Press Association, the National Association of Negro Funeral Directors, the National Negro Bar Association, the National Association of Negro Insurance Men, the National Negro Retail Merchants' Association, the National Association of Negro Real Estate Dealers, and the National Negro Finance Corporation.According to the National Negro Business League, the number black-owned businesses doubled from 20,000 and 40,000 in 1914. There were 450 undertakers and, rising to 1000. Drugstores rose from 250 to 695.
The Jazz Age transformed America into a more rich cultural society, the greatest exporter from America is and has been Jazz music. The greatest changes within the Jazz Age.As the 1920s progressed, jazz rose in popularity and helped to generate a cultural shift. Because of its popularity in speakeasies, illegal nightclubs where alcohol was sold during Prohibition, and its proliferation due to the emergence of more advanced recording devices, jazz became very popular in a short amount of time, with stars including Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Chick Webb. Several famous entertainment venues such as the Apollo Theater and the Cotton Club came to epitomize the Jazz Age.
Dances such as the Charleston, developed by African Americans, instantly became popular among different demographics, including among young white people. With the introduction of large-scale radio broadcasts in 1922, Americans were able to experience different styles of music without physically visiting a jazz club. Through its broadcasts and concerts, the radio provided Americans with a trendy new avenue for exploring unfamiliar cultural experiences from the comfort of their living rooms. The most popular type of radio show was a “potter palm,” an amateur concert and big-band jazz performance broadcast from New York and Chicago.