For instance, he lambastes black folk for our victimology and anti-intellectualism in his book Losing the Race.

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And this is going to sound strange in one sense, because religion to black folk has been so special...

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Du Bois asked that very question in his American classic The Souls of Black Folk, and he offered an answer.

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But the sky was cloudless, and as the sun rose everyone settled down and some even nodded off, which Jake Early regretted, feeling that when the Union soldiers came they should find black folk not at their ease but smartly arrayed as a welcoming company of free men and women.

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Webber and Wells got their start playing together in the neo-psychedelic folk-rock group Black Mountain, a Canadian band known for channeling acts like Led Zeppelin, complete with electrified riffs and aggressive beats.

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His music is deeply rooted in folk, African jazz and the a capella "mbube" music that Ladysmith Black Mambazo made famous.

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" Kilson concludes that I might do "well to revisit the folk essence of African-American institutions" before I again contemplate "an affront to Black people's honor.

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