It has been said and written that the truth will set you free. Well listen to what Robert F. Smith has to say and does for his people. He picks up the check for the student loans, of Moore House graduation 2019 class of 396, a cost of 40 million Dollars. Let the Black Community say AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Month: May 2019
“What Jason Murray’s Outlook Is”
Jason Murray a Bronx New York native who has a strong belief that there is a link between being a father and owning a business, to support the family and creates jobs in the community. He leads by example and in hope that others will follow. Read his thoughts on this subject, more about his book signing on his website. “Who was Mathew Kenney”
WikipediaBorn in the segregated South in 1921, Matthew Kennedy was known throughout his home state of Georgia as a child-prodigy. At age 12, he attended a concert given by the famous Russian pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff in Macon, Georgia in 1932. When this film was produced, he was one of few surviving witnesses of Rachmaninoff’s live performance. In his filmed interviews, Dr. Kennedy vividly describes what he remembers of the concert from his perspective in the segregated balcony for “Colored.” He was also the star of his own radio show broadcast from Macon in the early 1930s. At that time, Matthew’s stage name on radio and in the cinema – where he played the organ to accompany the silent films – was “Sunshine.”
Eventually Matthew Kennedy attended the Juilliard School in New York, traveled the world as a concert pianist, and directed the world-renowned Fisk Jubilee Singers of Nashville, Tennessee from 1957 to 1986. Founded in 1871, the Fisk Jubilee Singers are best known for their a cappella renditions of Negro Spirituals, and traveled the world to raise money for the fledgling Fisk School, which was one of America’s first HBCUs. They sang for the crowned heads of Europe, and Queen Victoria proclaimed “… they sing so beautifully they must be from the Music City of the United States.”[5]
Matthew Kennedy served as a professor of piano on the music faculty at Fisk University until his retirement in 1986. In 2006 he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Fisk University.
The film contains footage of interviews with Dr. Kennedy, live performances, radio broadcasts, studio recordings, and interviews with his former students and colleagues.
Awards[edit]
The film had its world-premiere at the 2007 Nashville Film Festival where it was awarded the Rosetta Miller Perry prize for Best Film by a Black Filmmaker.[6][7] The Fisk Jubilee Singers performed live at the premiere, and a second screening was scheduled when the first screening sold out.[8]
What a Great Lady!!!!
Finally recognized for her outstanding ability as a TV personality with CBS This Morning NEWS. She has know made the cover of Time Magazine.
“Why Marion Anderson did what they said was impossible”
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Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert is a 1939 documentary film which documents a concert performance by African American opera singer Marian Anderson after the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) had her barred from singing in Washington D.C.‘s Constitution Hall because she was black. Officials of the District of Columbia also barred her from performing in the auditorium of a white public high school. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt helped hold the concert at Lincoln Memorial, on federal property.[1] The Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, performance was attended by 75,000.[2] In 2001, this documentary film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
1963 March on Washington