Trailblazing poet, writer, activist, educator, and icon of the Black arts movement Nikki Giovanni passed away on Monday at the age of 81. Per NPR, Giovanni’s passing came after she was diagnosed ...
an Afrocentric aesthetic movement was brewing. Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka opened the Black Arts Repertory Theater in Harlem in 1965, seen as a nucleus for the emergent Black Arts Movement.
The job of a poet laureate is to engage Illinoisans in poetry, with each poet laureate given a small stipend to enact that ...
A creative writing series for teens and college-age students named to honor Larry Neal, a Philadelphia-born writer and key figure in the Black Arts Movement, starts Saturday at the Strawberry ...