The American Negro is an unapologetic critique, detailing the systemic and malevolent psychology that afflicts people of color. This project dissects the chemistry behind blind racism, using music as the medium to restore dignity and self-worth to my people. It should be evident that any examination of black music is an examination of the relationship between black and white America. This relationship has shaped the cultural evolution of the world and its negative roots run deep into our psyche. Featuring various special guests performing over a deeply soulful, elaborate orchestration, The American Negro reinvents the black native tongue through this album and it’s attendant short film (TAN) and 4-part podcast (invisible Blackness). The American Negro - both as a collective experience and as individual expressions - is insightful, provocative and inspiring and should land at the center of our ongoing reckoning with race, racism and the writing of the next chapter of American history.
American Negro Academy (1897-1924) •
The Future of the American Negro
The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois's “The Exhibit of American Negroes” (Part 5), by Jason Forrest, Nightingale
Who Speaks for the Negro?
Use of “Negro Dialect” in Poetry by Paul Laurence Dunbar and James Weldon Johnson - Owlcation
American Negro Unreleased Documentary From 1960s
The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical
The Book of American Negro Spirituals - NYPL Digital Collections
The Harlem Renaissance: What Was It, and Why Does It Matter?
