Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Jimmy Crack Corn; Frankie and Johnny; String of Pearls; Blue Moon; Jingle Bell Rock; and Dirty Pop: none of these songs would be here today without influence from African-American culture. Some people have a hard time listening to "black music," meaning Jazz, B...

Anorexia: Not Just A Women's Disease "Oh I'm so fat". This is not something we normally think of hearing out of a man's mouth. Women are thought to be the only ones that obsess over their appearance. Therefore, anorexia is commonly thought to be a woman's di...

The Mother That I Want To Be My mom is one of my best friends because we share a unique bond that only mothers and daughters can share. There are different relationships that people have, brothers and sisters, husband and wife, father and son, and so on, but the one truly unique relationship is o...

"It is America's music – born out of a million American negotiations: between having and not having; between happy and sad, country and city; between black and white and men and women; between the Old Africa and the Old Europe – which could only have happened in an entirely new...

Do you remember your first elementary school Christmas program, your little sister's piano recital, or those Friday night football half-time shows? What about the first musical you sat through on a field trip or the band you wanted to form when you were fifteen? These are all common experiences for...

Da Bluez From years 1505 to 1870, the world underwent the largest forced migration in history. West Africa was soon to be convulsed by the arrival of Europeans and become the advent of the transatlantic slave trade. Ships from Europe, bound for America, appeared on the horizon, and their captains...

Japan, Reality TV, and Farting Reality TV. Apparently, we all love it. The Nielsen ratings show that virtually all of America's favorite programming consists of reality based TV shows, and new reality series' are being created by the minute to satiate the masses' thirst for p...