Word: all-negro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Negro policemen and a dozen frock-coated ushers, some 4,000 U. S. Negroes marched briskly into St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan one day last week. At the head were the Knights of St. John, perspiring in gay full dress and cocked hats with long white feathers. St. Benedict's Commandery followed, with its Ladies' Auxiliary in blue-sashed white dresses; then small pickaninnies, the white-veiled Children of Mary, led by Negro nuns; at the end, many a Negro member of the Holy Name and St. Vincent de Paul societies. The 4,000 Negroes were...
Author Fisher is a young Negro physician who lives and practices in Jamaica, L. I. His detective story is one of the first by a Negro and with an all-Negro cast Negroes are suitable for mystery stories because they are hard to see in the dark and because white folk, not knowing much about them, believe them primitively prone to violence. Author Fisher writes much better than most white fictioneers. One of the things that makes his book unusual is highly appropriate local color about Harlem. Bubber Brown and Jinx Jenkins are as funny as Amos & Andy. Says Bubber...
...almost every Negro spiritual; it is the import of a morality play called Heaven Bound which has made its appearance in Atlanta, performed by the choir of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. First wide public to hear about Heaven Bound was the theatrical world. Theatre Guild Magazine for August called it "the first great American folk drama" and said: "It should and probably will make Georgia an American Oberammergau." Recalling the power of The Green Pastures, a Negro religion play written by a white man (TIME, March 10, 1930), observers hastened to inspect a genuine all-Negro product...
...cruelty of middle-class white "crackers" has been deftly transferred to book form by William Faulkner (Sanctuary), a reconstructed Southerner (TIME, Feb. 16). Further aspects of it are now to be seen in this grim play by DuBose Heyward of Charleston, S. C., author of the book whence came all-Negro Porgy three years...
There are 18 scenes, between each of which Hall Johnson's magnificent Negro choir intones a spiritual. The all-Negro cast perform with a combination of spontaneity, vigor, and accomplished artistry which exemplifies the race at its dramatic best. You will laugh at the ebony, tinsel-winged Angel Gabriel and at many of his heavenly associates. Other things may well make you cry. In any event you will be overcome by a reverence which can only be construed as a tribute to fine art, if, indeed, it is not a manifestation of more inscrutable religious impulses...