Hip Hop OR Harlem Renaissance?

Hip Hop OR Harlem Renaissance?

“Gonna buy me a knife with / a blade ten inches long. / Shall I carve ma self or / that man that done me wrong?”

• Hip Hop

• Harlem Renaissance?

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Hip Hop OR Harlem Renaissance?

“Who is America? You, me! / We are America! / To the enemy who would conquer us from without, / We say, / NO! / To the enemy who would divide / And conquer us from within, / We say, NO!”

• Hip Hop

• Harlem Renaissance

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Hip Hop OR Harlem Renaissance?

“I came on a slave ship, enslaved / from the cradle to the grave / For too many generations / Until the Emancipation freed a nation from the plantations.”

• Hip Hop

• Harlem Renaissance?

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

Hip Hop OR Harlem Renaissance?

“One day I'm gonna bust / Blow up on this society / Why did ya lie to me? / I couldn't find a trace of equality.”

• Hip Hop

• Harlem Renaissance

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Hip Hop OR Harlem Renissance?

“In the past if you picture events like a black tie / What’s the last thing you expect to see, black guys / What’s the life expectancy for black guys? / The system’s working effectively, that’s why”

• Hip Hop

• Harlem Renissance

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Hip Hop OR Harlem Renissance?

“Oh when I think of my long-suffering race, / For weary centuries despised, oppressed, / Enslaved and lynched, denied a human place”

• Hip Hop

• Harlem Renaissance

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Hip Hop OR Harlem Renaissance?

“Never love with all your heart, / It only ends in aching; / And bit by bit to the smallest part / That organ will be breaking.”

• Hip Hop

• Harlem Renaissance

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

Hip Hop OR Harlem Renaissance?

“What though before us lies the open grave? / Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, / Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!”

• Hip Hop

• Harlem Renaissance

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.8.7

Hip Hop OR Harlem Renaissance?

“One hand in the air for the big city / Street lights, big dreams, all lookin' pretty / No place in the world that could compare”

• Hip Hop

• Harlem Renaissance

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Hip Hop OR Harlem Renaissance?

“People, people we are the same / No we're not the same / Cause we don't know the game /What we need is awareness, we can't get careless”

• Hip Hop

• Harlem Renaissance

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7