His example provided a foundation for the emergence of the concept of cool itself from African American culture in the 1940s. Ambrotype, 1856, National Portrait Gallery, acquired through the ...

In the face of racism, the great African-American jazz saxophonist Lester Young was “cool.” Credited with bringing the word into the modern American vernacular, “I’m cool” wasn’t Young ...

cool and woke. Now, a new dictionary — the Oxford Dictionary of African American English — will attempt to codify the contributions and capture the rich relationship Black Americans have with ...

to understand [how] cool originates as a slang term in jazz, first introduced in the late ’30s and early ’40s, and popular among a group of African- American jazz musicians. It has wide ...

The Democratic Party has a “Black Elephant” problem they don’t want to talk about, African Americans to comprehend and voters to respond to on election day. That problem involves the growing ...

Nigerian music star Davido has offered a candid warning to Black Americans considering relocating ... the economic and living conditions in many African nations, which includes his home country ...

cool, bad meaning good." The research project is a collaboration between Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research and Oxford University Press, with Lanehart ...

AFRICAN AMERICANS. Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. GEORGE PEAKE, the first Black settler, arrived in 1809 and by 1860 there were 799 Black people living in ...