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New creative writing series for young people honors Larry Neal, a North Philly writer, poet, and leader of the Black Arts Movement
as a powerful influence on the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ‘70s. Although Neal is relatively unknown today, the book describes him as the “forgotten founding father” of a movement ...
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Poet and icon of the Black arts movement Nikki Giovanni dies at 81 following third cancer diagnosis
Trailblazing poet, writer, activist, educator, and icon of the Black arts movement Nikki Giovanni ... contribution to the Civil Rights movement. Her first book, Black Feeling, Black Talk, came ...
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Four artworks that explore what it meant to be Black and British in the 1980s
The story of the British Black Arts movement is a fascinating one, steeped in the cultural values of modern Britain. As Free Thinking explores how the politics and social changes of the 1980s ...