tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1081640256301305377.post7966590176862395501..comments2024-02-17T20:55:46.261-08:00Comments on Black History Heroes: Alain LeRoy Locke: The Father of the Harlem RenaissanceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1081640256301305377.post-82070676608712702722019-05-18T22:10:48.985-07:002019-05-18T22:10:48.985-07:00The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography;
Winne...The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography;<br />Winner, National Book Awards 2018 for Nonfiction:<br /><br />THE NEW NEGRO: THE LIFE OF ALAIN LOCKE<br />by Jeffrey C. Stewart (Oxford University Press, 2018)<br /><br />Cornel West (Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University) has publicly stated, in this online video: “Towards Oneness”:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbEDC8wAWiI<br /><br />“When you talk about race and the legacy of white supremacy, there’s no doubt that when the history is written, the true history is written, the history of this country, the Bahá’í Faith will be one of the leaven in the American loaf that allowed the democratic loaf to expand because of the anti-racist witness of those of Bahá’í faith. So that there is a real sense in which a Christian like myself is profoundly humbled before Bahá’í brothers and sisters and the Dizzy Gillespie’s and the Alain Locke’s and so forth.” …<br /><br />“I have come to have a profound admiration for brothers and sisters of the Bahá’í Faith. I’ve actually met Dizzy Gillespie and he, of course, one of the great artists of the twentieth century, was of Bahá’í Faith, and talked over and over again about what it meant to him.”<br /><br />"Alain Locke, of course, probably one of the greatest philosophic minds of the middle part of the twentieth century, was also of Bahá’í Faith, the first Black Rhodes scholar and chairman of the philosophy department at Howard University, for over forty-two years. What I’ve always been taken by is the very genuine universalism of the Bahá’í Faith, one of the first religious groups to really hit racism and white supremacy head on, decades ago. By decades, I mean many decades ago and remain consistent about it.”<br /><br />https://www.facebook.com/christopher.buck.1656/posts/2194357094016322Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11219903920863476975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1081640256301305377.post-53377622435208113532018-02-28T12:37:59.897-08:002018-02-28T12:37:59.897-08:00he is so cool i love itn omg i love it che is so cool i love itn omg i love it cAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com