Black dog is an oft-used phrase to mean depression. Here's a link that attributes the phrase to Winston Churchill, but I suspect he didn't invent it. I like the way they described it though: Black Dog was Churchill's name for his depression, and as is true with all metaphors, it speaks volumes.
The origin of the term âAfrican Americanâ. info The origin of the term âAfrican Americanâ. Jesse Jackson may have popularized the term in the late 1980s, but a Yale researcher finds what may very well be the very first written instance of African American - and it was published 233 years ago. Lawrence explains in his latest Rewrite. ... more Duration: {{video.duration.momentjs}}.
The Harlem Renaissance ushered in a time of many renewed firsts for African Americans in publishing: Langston Hughes, a central figure of the movement, published his first poem, âThe Negro Speaks of Rivers,â in the June 1921 of The Crisis; two years later, Jean Toomerâs Cane was the first book of fiction (though it is more accurate to deem it a hybrid text, as it also contains dramatic dialogue and poetry) by an African American writer to appear from a New York publisher since Charles ...