A cultural movement conceived of and promoted by Amiri Baraka in the mid-1960s. Its constellation of writers, performers, and artists included Nikki Giovanni, Gwendolyn Brooks, Haki Madhubuti, Etherid [..]

The black arts movement was an ideological movement that emerged in the USA in the early 1960s when black artists and intellectuals came together to organise, study and think about what a new black ar [..]

Noted playwright, poet, music critic, and writer Amiri Baraka (Everett LeRoi Jones) started the black arts movement (BAM) in 1965 as an artistic division of the Black Power movement. BAM encompassed music, literature, and the performing and visual arts. After the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, artists, playwrights, poets, writers, and [..]

 – a movement beginning in the 1960s where poets focused on social and political situation of African-Americans.

An expression of discontent and aspirations of Black America during the turbulent sixties and seventies, it followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Many African Americans became more [..]