Maurice Jackson
Author
Language
English
Description
In this groundbreaking and thought-provoking book, gospel recording artist Maurice Jackson examines how the Natural diet intertwines with the Spiritual aspects of our lives, and how our purpose and destiny can be forever changed with one dietary choice.
The diet common in the African American culture at home, at church, and at daily meals, the food prepared for holidays, church anniversaries, birthday celebrations, and even for simple meals is consumed...
Author
Publisher
PENN
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"In this wide-ranging intellectual biography, Maurice Jackson demonstrates how Benezet mediated Enlightenment political and social thought, narratives of African life written by slave traders themselves, and the ideas and experiences of ordinary people to create a new antislavery critique. Benezet's use of travel narratives challenged proslavery arguments about an undifferentiated, "primitive" African society. Benezet's empirical evidence, laid on...
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The conventional history of jazz music in the United States begins in New Orleans, moves upstream along the Mississippi River to Chicago, then by rail into New York before exploding across the globe. But in fact the nation's capital has been a fertile city for jazz for a century. Some of the most important clubs in the jazz world have opened and closed their doors in Washington, DC; some of its greatest players and promoters were born there and continue...