Written by Angela Mack   (c) 2004 The time period between 1918 and 1929 contained an explosion of African American immigration, literary and artistic expression in Harlem, NY.(c) Angela Mack 2004    The Harlem Renaissance, also known as “The Negro Movement” was the time period between 1918 and 1929 in which there was an explosion of African [...]

  Harlem Renaissance writer, LANGSTON HUGHES “The Weary Blues” From the Eyes of a Musician (c) Angela K. Mack 2/05     Langston Hughes is a fascinating African American writer who has written many poetry books such as The Weary Blues, Fire Clothes to the Jew, Shakespeare in Harlem, Montage of a Dream Deferred, and Ask [...]

Data, Things, People, IDEAS……. December 19th, 2007 by angmack ACT Educators (ACT Tests) have come up with this great little “World-of-Work” Map. It breaks careers into categories of Data, Data and Things, Working With Things, Data, People and Data, Working With Ideas, Ideas and Things, and People and Ideas. People get paid to work with [...]

PREACHIN’ TO THE CHOIR February 24th, 2008 (c) angmack “Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource. The ability to come up with new ideas and better ways of doing things is ultimately what raises productivity and thus living standards”. —The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida I just found out about this book today. [...]

Lame Christian Art By Angela K. Mack © 2004          One of the things that annoys me about Christians is that we often lack originality and seem to copy world trends long after they are outdated.  Let’s face it, in our attempts to be trendy, we have neglected the mandate to be creators and have [...]

Dang pirates previously published on http://www.creativeconnectionarts.com November 20th, 2008 by angmack Many years ago, I began a book that dealt with the subject of piracy especially in the arts. Pirates steal. Period. They have historically searched the sea for treasures and have stolen that which is not rightfully theirs. There are people who don’t have [...]