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Moynihan, who has written or edited 18 books, is best known for “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,” a report he wrote in 1965 while assistant secretary of labor, a document that became commonly known as “The Moynihan Report...
...report drew attention to the rise of single-parent families and other evidence of breakdown of the traditional family—arguing this was “the fundamental source of the weakness of the Negro community at the present time...
...because like the slaves, the ancient Israelites of the Bible had been oppressed, analogies between slaves’ plight and that of the Israelites became a prevalent theme in Negro spirituals. For instance, the spiritual, “Go Down Moses” directly appealed to this similarity of experience...
...Negro spiritual is not just a sorrow song but also contains an irrepressible sense of triumph and a belief that in the end, “everything is gonna be alright.” This brings us back to the Harvard campus favorite, “Ride On,” which implicitly taunts the slave-owners who think they will forever be able to exert their control over the slaves, saying, “One of these mornings and it won’t be long; you’re gonna look...
...beauty of the spirituals is that every one of us can relate to them in some way because we have all, at some time in our lives, felt down and out. For this reason, even if Kuumba never sang another one, the spirit of the Negro spiritual would continue live on as vibrantly as it does...