Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, in podcasts, and in books.
Today is a story of February 9th
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It is the 40th day of the year, leaving 325 days remaining in 2023.
His told his stories in literate language, about many things which passed his fancy that he studied and appreciated. This included linguistics, Haitian art, foreign languages, dance history, African-American art, and medieval literature, just to cite a few.
He was an author of books, a public intellectual, a mainstay in the Atlanta community, and a professor and teacher at several universities, including Emory University, Atlanta University, Harvard University, and others in France and throughout Africa.
He served on numerous boards of cultural organizations and institutions, including the national Endowment for the Arts, The Smithsonian Museum of African Art, The Society of Dance History Scholars, and the Zora Neale Hurston Festival.
He founded the New World Festivals of the African Diaspora, and was the U.S. committee member at the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture that was held in Lagos, Nigeria, in the 1970s.
And he wrote scholarly books: Black Americana, published in 1985; The Black Tradition in American Dance, in 1989; Grown Deep: Essays on the Harlem Renaissance, in 1998; and its follow-up, One More Time: Harlem Renaissance History and Historicism, in 2007.
Long died in 2013.
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