The American Negro

The American Negro is an unapologetic critique, detailing the systemic and malevolent psychology that afflicts people of color.  This project dissects the chemistry behind blind racism, using music as the medium to restore dignity and self-worth to my people.  It should be evident that any examination of black music is an examination of the relationship between black and white America.  This relationship has shaped the cultural evolution of the world and its negative roots run deep into our psyche.  Featuring various special guests performing over a deeply soulful, elaborate orchestration, The American Negro reinvents the black native tongue through this album and it’s attendant short film (TAN) and 4-part podcast (invisible Blackness). The American Negro - both as a collective experience and as individual expressions - is insightful, provocative and inspiring and should land at the center of our ongoing reckoning with race, racism and the writing of the next chapter of American history.

The Making of Adrian Younge's The American Negro

The Future of the American Negro – Open Textbook

The National Council of Negro Women and the Black Freedom Struggle - AAIHS

Negro Building by Mabel O. Wilson - Paperback - University of California Press

The Future of the American Negro

The American Negro

The story of how Negro History Week became Black History Month - Face2Face Africa

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868 to 1963) – Health is a Human Right

The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois's “The Exhibit of American Negroes” (Part 5), by Jason Forrest, Nightingale

The American Negro Theater is Formed - African American Registry

The American Negro at Paris, November 1900

The Negro in American History - Encyclopedia Virginia

The American Negro : what he was, what he is, and what he may become : a critical and practical rejoinder to William Hannibal Thomas

Use of “Negro Dialect” in Poetry by Paul Laurence Dunbar and James Weldon Johnson - Owlcation