The Harlem Renaissance was as Gay as it was Black,” said Harvard Historian, Louis Gates, Jr. As we have studied and know instinctually, African Americans have a history of struggles, oppression and have had to suffer the indignities of racism by the white world around them. YET, despite all that, they experienced a cultural “rebirth” (renaissance) in the 1920s through the arts of literature and music. How did those who were involved in the Harlem Renaissance (the African American “cultural rebirth”) rise above the racial oppression they experienced?

Read the excerpt from “pakistan’s malala.” "ziauddin had a revolutionary zeal and deep commitment to education," ellick said this week. "this charming little girl, she is a mini-version of him in many ways. she loves school, homework. whenever she would meet me she had a bookbag full of books." "she didn't have that idealistic activist attitude when she's 10 and 11, because who does? " ellick said. "her situation demanded that she grow up before she should have. she caught his contagious commitment and idealism." which detail best reflects how living in the taliban-ruled swat valley affected malala?